Title: On critical pedagogy /
Authors: Giroux, Henry A.
Publisher: Continuum,
Year: 2011
Subjects: Critical pedagogy.; Educational sociology.
Abstract: "For thirty years Henry Giroux has been theorizing pedagogy as a political, moral, and cultural practice, drawing upon critical discourses that extend from John Dewey and Zygmunt Bauman to Paulo Freire. This impassioned book starts with the crucial role of pedagogy in schools before extending the notion to the educational force of the wider culture.
Contents: Critical pedagogy in dark times -- Schooling and the culture of positivism : notes on the death of history -- Rethinking cultural politics and radical pedagogy in the work of Antonio Gramsci -- The promise of critical pedagogy in the age of globalization : towards a pedagogy of democratization -- No bailouts for youth : education and pedagogy in an era of disposability -- Higher education and the politics and pedagogy of educated hope -- Neoliberalism and the politics of public pedagogy -- Rethinking education as the practice of freedom : Paulo Freire and the promise of critical pedagogy -- Does critical pedagogy have a future? : Henry A. Giroux interviewed by Manuela Guilherme.