Pedagogy And The Politics Of Hope: Theory, Culture, And Schooling: A Critical Reader

by Giroux,Henry

• ISBN13: 9780813332741
• ISBN10: 0813332745
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1997-02-22
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Henry A. Giroux is one of the most respected and well-known critical education scholars, social critics, and astute observers of popular culture in the modern world. For those who follow his considerably influential work in critical pedagogy and social criticism, this first-ever collection of his classic writings, augmented by a new essay, is a must-have volume that reveals his evolution as a scholar. In it, he takes on three major considerations central to pedagogy and schooling.The first section offers Giroux's most widely read theoretical critiques on the culture of positivism and technocratic rationality. He contends that by emphasizing the logic of science and rationality rather than taking a holistic worldview, these approaches fail to take account of connections among social, political, and historical forces or to consider the importance of such connections for the process of schooling.In the second section, Giroux expands the theoretical framework for conceptualizing and implementing his version of critical pedagogy. His theory of border pedagogy advocates a democratic public philosophy that embraces the notion of difference as part of a common struggle to extend the quality of public life. For Giroux, a student must function as a border-crosser, as a person moving in and out of physical, cultural, and social borders. He uses the popular medium of Hollywood film to show students how they might understand their own position as partly constructed within a dominant Eurocentric tradition and how power and authority relate to the wider society as well as to the classroom.In the last section, Giroux explores a number of contemporary traditions and issues, including modernism, postmodernism, and feminism, and discusses the matter of cultural difference in the classroom. Finally, in an essay written especially for this volume, Giroux analyzes the assault on education and teachers as public intellectuals that began in the Reagan-Bush era and continues today.

Author Biography

Henry A. Giroux is a professor at the School of Education at Pennsylvania State University.

Table of Contents

Series Editors' Foreword	ix
Joe L. Kincheloe
Peter McLaren
Shirley R. Steinberg
Part 1 Theoretical Foundations for Critical Pedagogy
Schooling and the Culture of Positivism: Notes on the Death of History	3	(32)
Culture and Rationality in Frankfurt School Thought: Ideological Foundations for a Theory of Social Education	35	(36)
Ideology and Agency in the Process of Schooling	71	(24)
Authority, Intellectuals, and the Politics of Practical Learning	95	(24)
Part 2 Critical Pedagogy in the Classroom
Radical Pedagogy and the Politics of Student Voice	119	(28)
Border Pedagogy in the Age of Postmodernism	147	(17)
Disturbing the Peace: Writing in the Cultural Studies Classroom	164	(19)
Part 3 Contemporary Concerns
Rethinking the Boundaries of Educational Discourse: Modernism, Postmodernism, and Feminism	183	(51)
Insurgent Multiculturalism and the Promise of Pedagogy	234	(20)
Public Intellectuals and the Culture of Reaganism in the 1990s	254	(19)
List of Credits	273	(2)
About the Book and Author	275	(2)
Index	277