Theory and resistance in education : towards a pedagogy for the opposition
Henry A. Giroux (Author), Paulo Freire, Stanley Aronowitz (Writer of preface)
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
Print Book, English, 2001
Revised and expanded edition View all formats and editions
Bergin & Garvey, Westport, Conn., 2001
xxxiii, 280 pages ; 24 cm.
9780897897969, 089789796X
45871233
Foreword by Paulo FreirePreface by Stanley AronowitzIntroduction: Educated Hope, Public Pedagogy and the Politics of ResistanceTheory and Critical DiscourseCritical Theory and Educational PracticeSchooling and the Politics Hidden CurriculumReproduction, Resistance, and AccommodationResistance and Critical PedagogyIdeology, Culture, and SchoolingCritical Theory and Rationality in Citizenship EducationLiteracy, Ideology, and the Politics of SchoolingConclusion: Toward a New Public SphereBibliographyIndex