Henry A. Giroux

On Critical Pedagogy (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Alongside Paulo Freire, Henry A. Giroux is widely considered to be the founding father of critical pedagogy. This classic work represents his best writing on critical pedagogy spanning the past 40 years. The 2nd edition includes four new chapters covering the rise of fascist culture in America and across the globe and the dictatorship of ignorance in the age of Trump and post-truth.

This impassioned work opens by discussing critical pedagogy in schools before extending the notion to the educational force of culture, politics, and society. Giroux analyses the increasingly empirical orientation of teaching, focusing on the culture of positivism and examines some of the major economic, social, and political forces undermining the promise of democratic schooling in both public and higher education. He argues against the tendency by both right wing and neo-liberal interests to reduce schooling to training, and students merely to customers. He points to the increasing attack on pubic and higher education by right-wing populists and the Trump administration in an age of growing authoritarianism. Giroux also considers the legacy of Freire and issues a fundamental challenge to educators, public intellectuals, and others who believe in the promise of radical democracy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. März 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350144996
• Artikelnr.: 58435832

Autorenporträt

Henry A. Giroux holds the Chair for Scholarship in the Public Interest in English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University, Canada. His books include On Critical Pedagogy, 2nd Edition (2020), Race, Politics, and Pandemic Pedagogy (2021), Pedagogy of Resistance (2022) and Insurrections (2023).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I: Pedagogy as Cultural Politics
1. Schooling and the Culture of Positivism: Notes on the Death of History
2. Rethinking Cultural Politics and Radical Pedagogy in the Work of Antonio
Gramsci
3. The Promise of Critical Pedagogy in the Age of Globalization: Towards a
Pedagogy of Democratization
Part II: Critical Pedagogy and the Politics of Youth
4. No Bailouts for Youth: Education and Pedagogy in an Era of Disposability
5. Higher Education and the Politics and Pedagogy of Educated Hope
Part III: Neoliberalism, Public Pedagogy, and the Legacy of Paulo Freire
6. Neoliberalism and the Politics of Public Pedagogy
7. Rethinking Education as the Practice of Freedom: Paulo Freire and the
Promise of Critical Pedagogy
Part IV: Critical Pedagogy Against the Plague of Fascism
8. Rethinking Critical Pedagogy in the Post-Truth Age
9. Critical Pedagogy in Dark Times
10. Let's Shut Down the Authoritarian Machine
11. Interview: Life in Zones of Social Abandonment, Henry Giroux and Brad
Evans
References
Index