Giroux Reader

by Giroux,Henry A.

• ISBN13: 9781594512292
• ISBN10: 1594512299
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-09-15
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

One of the world's leading social critics and educational theorists, Henry A. Giroux has contributed significantly to critical pedagogy, cultural studies, youth studies, social theory, and cultural politics. This new book offers a carefully selected cross-section of Giroux's many scholarly and popular writings, which bridge the theoretical and practical, integrate multiple academic disciplines, and fuse scholarly rigor with social relevance. The essays underscore the continuities and transformations in Giroux's thought, just as they offer invaluable approaches to understanding a range of social problems. Giroux's work suggests that a more humane and democratic world is possible and provides critical tools that can assist concerned citizens in bringing it into being.

Author Biography

Henry A. Giroux holds the Global TV Network Chair in the English and Cultural Studies Department at McMaster University, Canada.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Reading	vii
Henry Giroux
PART I: Sociology of Education	1	(66)
1 Theories of Reproduction and Resistance in the New Sociology of Education: Toward a Critical Theory of Schooling and Pedagogy for the Opposition	3	(44)
2 Border Pedagogy in the Age of Postmodernism	47	(20)
PART II: Cultural Studies and Cultural Politics	67	(56)
3 Consuming Social Change: The "United Colors of Benetton"	69	(20)
4 Doing Cultural Studies: Youth and the Challenge of Pedagogy	89	(34)
PART III: The War against Youth	123	(56)
5 Nymphet Fantasies: Child Beauty Pageants and the Politics of Innocence	125	(22)
6 Disposable Youth and the Politics of Domestic Militarization: Mis/Education in the Age of Zero Tolerance	147	(32)
PART IV: From Critical Pedagogy to Public Pedagogy	179	(52)
7 Is There a Role for Critical Pedagogy in Language/Cultural Studies? An Interview with Henry A. Giroux, Manuela Guilherme	181	(14)
8 Cultural Studies, Critical Pedagogy, and the Responsibility of Intellectuals	195	(24)
9 Mouse Power: Public Pedagogy, Cultural Studies, and the Challenge of Disney	219	(12)
PART V: The Politics of Higher Education	231	(52)
10 Racial Politics, Pedagogy, and the Crisis of Representation in Academic Multiculturalism	233	(20)
11 Youth, Higher Education, and the Crisis of Public Time: Educated Hope and the Possibility of a Democratic Future	253	(30)
PART VI: Public Intellectuals and Their Work	283	(30)
12 Paulo Freire and the Politics of Postcolonialism	285	(12)
13 The Promise of Democracy and Edward Said's Politics of Worldliness: Implications for Academics as Public Intellectuals	297	(16)
Index	313	(20)
Credits	333	(2)
About the Author and Editor	335