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“Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue”

Capitalism, Punk Rock, and the Importance of Critical Pedagogy

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Spinning Popular Culture as Public Pedagogy

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Like millions of white working-class American youth in the post-WWII boom era, my parents, seeking the upward mobility a university education promised, attended and met at college in the late 1960s. My mom and my dad’s ancestral trajectories are strikingly similar—from Western European immigrants, to Ohio farmers, to factory works, to carpenters and construction workers, to university professors.

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Malott, C. (2017). “Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue”. In: Austin, J. (eds) Spinning Popular Culture as Public Pedagogy. Imagination and Praxis: Criticality and Creativity in Education and Educational Research. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-848-8_9

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