On Critical Pedagogy

Name: On Critical Pedagogy
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ISBN: 9781441116222

ISBN-10: 1441116222

ISBN-13: 9781441116222

Edition: 2011

Authors: Henry A. Giroux

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For thirty years Henry Giroux has been theorizing pedagogy as a political, moral, and cultural practice, drawing upon critical discourses that extend from John Dewey and Zygmunt Bauman to Paulo Freire. This impassioned book starts with the crucial role of pedagogy in schools before extending the notion to the educational force of the wider culture. Giroux focuses on five crucial elements associated with critical pedagogy. First, he presents an overview of the term as it applies to schooling and to larger cultural spheres. Second, he analyzes the increasingly empirical orientation of teaching, focusing on the culture of positivism. Section Three examines some of the major economic, social,…

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List price: $27.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic & Professional
Publication date: 6/16/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 192
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English

Henry A. Giroux is the well-known author of numerous books and articles on society, education, and political culture. He is Waterbury Chair of Education at Pennsylvania State University and lives in State College, Pennsylvania.




Introduction



Critical Pedagogy in Dark Times



Pedagogy as Cultural Politics



Schooling and the Culture of Positivism: Notes on the Death of History



Rethinking Cultural Politics and Radical Pedagogy in the Work of Antonio Gramsci



The Promise of Critical Pedagogy in the Age of Globalization: Towards a Pedagogy of Democratization



Critical Pedagogy and the Politics of Youth



No Bailouts for Youth: Education and Pedagogy in an Era of Disposability



Higher Education and the Politics and Pedagogy of Educated Hope



Neoliberalism, Public Pedagogy and the Legacy of Paulo Freire



Neoliberalism and the Politics of Public Pedagogy



Rethinking Education as the Practice of Freedom: Paulo Freire and the Promise of Critical Pedagogy



Does Critical Pedagogy Have a Future?



Does Critical Pedagogy Have a Future?



Index