Theory and Resistance in Education: Towards a Pedagogy for the Opposition / Edition 2

by Henry A. Giroux

Overview

At the beginning of the new millennium, educators, parents, and others should reevaluate what it means for adults and young people to grow up in a world that has been radically altered by a hyper capitalism that monopolizes the educational force of culture as it ruthlessly eliminates those public spheres not governed by the logic of the market. Giroux provides new theoretical and political tools for addressing how pedagogy, knowledge, resistance, and power can be analyzed within and across a variety of cultural spheres, including but not limited to the schools. A new introduction adds much to the well received first edition.

The time for radical social change has never been so urgent, since the fate of an entire generation of young people, if not democracy itself, is at stake. Giroux argues that challenge gives new meaning to the importance of resistance, the relevance of pedagogy, and the significance of political agency.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780897897969
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	09/30/2001
Series:	Critical Studies in Education and Culture Series
Edition description:	REVISED & EXPANDED
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.71(d)

About the Author

HENRY A. GIROUX is Waterbury Chair Professor of Education, The Pennsylvania State University.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Paulo Freire
Preface by Stanley Aronowitz
Introduction: Educated Hope, Public Pedagogy and the Politics of Resistance
Theory and Critical Discourse
Critical Theory and Educational Practice
Schooling and the Politics Hidden Curriculum
Reproduction, Resistance, and Accommodation
Resistance and Critical Pedagogy
Ideology, Culture, and Schooling
Critical Theory and Rationality in Citizenship Education
Literacy, Ideology, and the Politics of Schooling
Conclusion: Toward a New Public Sphere
Bibliography
Index

Editorial Reviews

Giroux uses concepts such as ideology, culture, and power to clarify how schools and education serve the interests of a select few in society Giroux offers the educator a hope, and a means, for influencing change.” —Language Arts

“This book [is] of immense importance. Giroux is a first-rate thinker struggling with theoretical problems of incredible difficulty... A provocative book.” —Quarterly Jourbanal of Ideology

“Marks a significant moment in the development of a radical theory of education.” —Curriculum Inquiry

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