Pedagogy and the politics of hope : theory, culture, and schooling : a critical reader /

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Giroux, Henry A., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Critical pedagogy.

Postmodernism and education.

Education--Political aspects.

Education.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 290 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, [2018]

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...-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Series Editors' Foreword; PART ONE Theoretical Foundations for Critical Pedagogy; 1. Schooling and the Culture of Positivism: Notes on the Death of History; 2. Cutlure and Rationality in Frankfurt School Thought: Ideological Foundations for a Theory of Social Education; 3. Ideology and Agency in the Process of Schooling; 4. Authority, Intellectuals, and the Politics of Practical Learning; PART TWO Critical Pedagogy in the Classroom; 5. Radical Pedagogy and the Politics of Student Voice; 6. Border Pedagogy in the Age of Postmodernism7. Disturbing the Peace: Writing in the Cultural Studies Classroom PART THREE Contemporary Concerns; 8. Rethinking the Boundaries of Educational Discourse: Modernism, Postmodernism, and Feminism; 9. Insurgent Multiculturalism and the Promise of Pedagogy; 10. Public Intellectuals and the Culture of Reaganism in the 1990s; Credits; About the Book and Author; Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

0-429-49842-X

0-7867-4237-2

1-4294-8947-2

9780429498428 (ebook)

9780429498428