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

By: Giroux, Henry A.
Series: The edge, critical studies in educational theory.Publisher: Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 1997Description: xiv, 290 p. ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0813332737; 9780813332734:; 0813332745.Subject(s): Critical pedagogy | Education -- Philosophy | Postmodernism and education | Politics and educationDDC classification: 370.115
Contents:
Schooling and the culture of positivism : notes on the death of history -- Culture and rationality in Frankfurt School thought : ideological foundations for a theory of social education -- Ideology and agency in the process of schooling -- Authority, intellectuals, and the politics of practical learning -- Radical pedagogy and the politics of student voice -- Border pedagogy in the age of postmodernism -- Disturbing the peace : writing in the cultural studies classroom -- Rethinking the boundaries of educational discourse : modernism, postmodernism, and feminism -- Insurgent multiculturalism and the promise of pedagogy -- Public intellectuals and the culture of Reaganism in the 1990s.
Summary: Giroux is a seminal figure in the field of critical education. This volume brings together his most important essays on theory, pedagogy and culture. It also includes a new essay which analyses recent assaults on education and teachers.
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Selection of author's essays previously published over past fifteen years.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Schooling and the culture of positivism : notes on the death of history -- Culture and rationality in Frankfurt School thought : ideological foundations for a theory of social education -- Ideology and agency in the process of schooling -- Authority, intellectuals, and the politics of practical learning -- Radical pedagogy and the politics of student voice -- Border pedagogy in the age of postmodernism -- Disturbing the peace : writing in the cultural studies classroom -- Rethinking the boundaries of educational discourse : modernism, postmodernism, and feminism -- Insurgent multiculturalism and the promise of pedagogy -- Public intellectuals and the culture of Reaganism in the 1990s.

Giroux is a seminal figure in the field of critical education. This volume brings together his most important essays on theory, pedagogy and culture. It also includes a new essay which analyses recent assaults on education and teachers.

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