Pedagogy and the Politics of Hope: Theory, Culture, and Schooling: A Critical Reader

Colo.: WestviewPress, Boulder, 1997. xiv, 290 pages; 24 cm. Near fine with a tiny boit of lencil (easily erased). . Paperback. ISBN: 9780813332734, 9780813332741

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 schoolingContents: Series Editors’ Foreword -- Theoretical Foundations for Critical Pedagogy -- 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 -- Critical Pedagogy in the Classroom -- Radical Pedagogy and the Politics of Student Voice -- Border Pedagogy in the Age of Postmodernism -- Disturbing the Peace: Writing in the Cultural Studies Classroom -- Contemporary Concerns -- 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 -- Credits. Notes: Selection of author's essays previously published over past fifteen years.