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This unique book is divided into two sections. The first section highlights specific international youth activists, their biographies, work, and accomplishments. The second section is a collection of work by youth, who address their own activism, goals, identities, and needs. Commentaries by teachers, community workers, and facilitators compliment the entries, creating a unique, intergenerational and multi-faceted volume. The book will serve to fill a gap in teacher education, highlighting and listening to youth, themselves, who, the editor, contends, should be intimately involved in their own education and futures. A new model for teacher education, this book allows teachers to understand that youth must have, and demand, a voice in the determination of their lives and futures. Previous work with youth tends to "deal with them" as a problem to be solved, a group to be managed. This book insists that youth are viable citizens and create a voice which is heard internationally. Activists under 30 is the first book of its kind, to be addressed to youth, teachers, parents, and activists. It reminds us that youth are our most valuable resource, and insists we incorporate them, invite them, and listen to them.

Kinderculture: mediating, simulacralizing, and pathologizing the new childhood /Shirley R. Steinberg --Teens and vampires: from Buffy the vampire slayer to Twilight's vampire lovers /Douglas Kellner --Is Disney good for your kids? How corporate media shapes youth identity in the digital age /Henry A. Giroux and Grace Pollock --Selling subculture: an examination of hot topic /Sarah Hanks --Queer eye for the straight-acting guy: the performance of masculinity in gay youth culture and popular culture /Dennis Carlson --FLUID: teen and youth identity construction in cyberspace /Donyell L. Roseboro --Tween-method and the politics of studying kinderculture /Ingvild Kvale Sørenssen and Claudia Mitchell --From Miley merchandising to pop princess peddling: the Hannah Montana phenomenon /Ruthann Mayes-Elma --Corporatizing sports: fantasy leagues, the athlete as commodity, and fans as consumers /Daniel E. Chapman and John A. Weaver --Hip hop and critical pedagogy: from Tupac to Master P to 50 Cent and beyond /Greg Dimitriadis --McDonald's, power, and children: Ronald McDonald/Ray Kroc does it all for you /Joe L. Kincheloe --The book of Barbie: after half a century, the bitch continues to have everything /Shirley R. Steinberg --Home alone and bad to the bone: the advent of a postmodern childhood /Joe L. Kincheloe.

This book reveals the profound impact that our purchasing obsessed culture has on our children and argues that corporate marketing to youth has reshaped the experience of childhood into something that is prefabricated. Scholars in education, sociology, and cultural studies contribute essays that students, parents, and educators will find entertaining and disturbing. This third edition is thoroughly updated with examinations of the icons that shape the values and consciousness of today's children, including Twilight, Barbie, hip-hop, Disney, McDonald's, and many more.

Teens in European countries have a number of similarities. But, because Europe consists of such a diverse group of countries, differences do exist. These differences can be attributed to a variety of economies, geographies, and politics. American teens will find a special interest in the region, as it is the region in the world most similar to their own culture.

PurposeTo exemplify how narrative leads us to question and continue question in a capitalized academic world which continually demands answers.Design/methodology/approachThis viewpoint/editorialized piece uses narrative voice as a gestalt for our times.FindingsTo ask more questions, to engage in dialogue, to become equitable. To get woke.Research limitations/implicationsThat empiricists will not get an answer.Practical implicationsThat all who read has the possibility of identifying with this global issueSocial implicationsTo make a changeOriginality/valueNarrative voice is original

Consumer culture has an overwhelming impact on the young consumer generation. International corporations often focus on children and youth for a major part of their income generation. This focus is a component of the changing nature of society. Instead of consumers discovering their own wants and needs, corporations create and dictate exactly what people want. This article discusses how media and corporation-generated consumption have helped to form what I call the new childhood. My analysis investigates the footprints of power created by the corporate producers of kinderculture and the effects on the psyches of our children and youth. The understanding of kinderculture can create democratic pedagogies for cultural, personal, and school levels of society.