A Critical Analysis of the Culture of Consumption: A Running Curriculum

<p>In utilizing critical theory to analyze the culture of consumption in school and in society, this work examines how the individual is becoming increasingly marginalized in a consumer world where the ethic of consumption is constantly reinforced via hegemony. My analysis and examination also considers how schools are becoming more commercialized as standardization and the corporate culture dominate the academic agenda; a trend I contend is producing passive consumers instead of independent, critical thinkers. In order to counter the hegemonic process in society and in school I call for a more holistic curriculum; one that incorporates the mental and physical benefits of running in order to address the needs of the whole child.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Doctor of Education in Curriculum Studies (Ed.D.)

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation (restricted to Georgia Southern)

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Department of Curriculum, Foundations, and Reading

Year dc:date.available

2012

Author dc:creator

• Sutlive, John

Contributors dc:contributor

• Deron Boyles
• Daniel Chapman
• Ming He

• ETD
• egemony
• Organic Intellectual
• Counter Hegemony
• Commodity Fetishism
• Labor-value theory
• Currere
• Curriculum and Social Inquiry

Repository record dc:identifier

https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/etd/812

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu:etd-1816