Theory and resistance in education : towards a pedagogy for the opposition / Henry A. Giroux ; foreword by Paolo Freire ; preface by Stanley Aronowitz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Giroux, Henry A., author.

Contributor:

Freire, Paulo, 1921-1997, writer of foreword.

Aronowitz, Stanley, writer of preface.

Series:

Critical studies in education and culture series 1064-8615

Critical studies in education and culture series, 1064-8615

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education--Philosophy.

Education.

Critical pedagogy.

Positivism.

Socialization.

Physical Description:

xxxiii, 280 pages ; 24 cm.

Edition:

Revised and expanded edition.

Place of Publication:

Westport, Conn. : Bergin & Garvey, 2001.

Summary:

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. --Publisher description.

Contents:

Series Foreword / Henry A. Giroux

Foreword / Paulo Freire

Preface / Stanley Aronowitz

Introduction: Educated Hope, Public Pedagogy, and the Politics of Resistance / Henry A. Giroux

Sect. 1. Theory and Critical Discourse. Ch. 1. Critical Theory and Educational Practice. Ch. 2. Schooling and the Politics of the Hidden Curriculum. Ch. 3. Reproduction, Resistance, and Accommodation

Sect. 2. Resistance and Critical Pedagogy. Ch. 4. Ideology, Culture, and Schooling. Ch. 5. Critical Theory and Rationality in Citizenship Education. Ch. 6. Literacy, Ideology, and the Politics of Schooling. Conclusion: Toward a New Public Sphere.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-271) and index.

ISBN:

089789796X

9780897897969

OCLC:

45871233