Teachers as Intellectuals: Toward a Critical Pedagogy of Learning

by Henry A. Giroux

Overview

a book for all practitioners and all members of the greater community. Giroux demands reader involvement, transformation, and empowerment. He helps us understand that the political relationship between schools and society is neither artificial nor neutral nor necessarily negative. Rather, school personnel have a positive and dynamic political role to play.

Educational Leadership

We are fortunate to have these ideas expressed so clearly and in one place. It is a very useful book. . . .

Choice

Offers educators ways for reflecting critically on their own practices and the relationship between schools and society. The Educational Digest

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780897891578
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	08/30/1988
Series:	Critical Studies in Education and Culture Series
Pages:	290
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.69(d)

About the Author

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), Insurrections (2023) and Fascism on Trial (2024), all published by Bloomsbury.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Peter McLaren

Editor's Introduction

Introduction

Rethinking the Language of Schooling

Rethinking the Language of Schooling

Toward a New Sociology of Curriculum

Social Education in the Classroom: The Dynamics of the Hidden Curriculum

Overcoming Behavioral and Humanistic Objectives

Literacy, Writing, and the Politics of Voice

Writing and Critical Thinking in the Social Studies

Mass Culture and the Rise of the New Illiteracy: Implications for Reading

Critical Pedagogy, Cultural Politics, and the Discourse of Experience

Culture, Power, and Transformation in the Work of Paulo Freire: Toward a Politics of Education

Teaching, Intellectual Work, and Education as Cultural Politics Teachers as Transformative Intellectuals

Curriculum Study and Cultural Politics

The Need for Cultural Studies

Teacher Education and the Politics of Democratic Reform

Toward a Language of Critique and Possibility

Crisis and Possibilities in Education

Reproducing Reproduction: The Politics of Tracking

Antonio Gramsci

Solidarity, Ethics, and Possibility in Critical Education

Index

Editorial Reviews

[Offers] educators ways for reflecting critically on their own practices and the relationship between schools and society.” —The Education Digest

“Teachers As Intellectuals is a book for all practitioners and all members of the greater community. Giroux demands reader involvement, transformation, and empowerment. He helps us understand that the political relationship between schools and society is neither artificial nor neutral nor necessarily negative. Rather, school personnel have a positive and dynamic political role to play.” —Educational Leadership

“We are fortunate to have these ideas expressed so clearly and in one place. It is a very useful book.” —Choice

“Giroux is one of the grand masters of left educational theory.” —Voice Literary Supplement

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