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Theory and Resistance in Education Towards a Pedagogy for the Opposition
Revised and Expanded Edition
Henry A. Giroux
Foreword by Paulo Freire
Preface by Stanley Aronowitz
Book Code: EH031
ISBN: 0-313-37488-0
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-37488-3
320 pages
Bergin & Garvey Paperback
Publication: 9/30/2001
List Price: $34.95 (UK Sterling Price: £19.95)
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Paperback
Also Available: Hardcover
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Subjects: Reviews:
  • Giroux uses concepts such as ideology, culture, and power to clarify how schools and education serve the interests of a select few in society Giroux offers the educator a hope, and a means, for influencing change.
    —Language Arts
  • This book [is] of immense importance. Giroux is a first-rate thinker struggling with theoretical problems of incredible difficulty. [A] provocative book.
    —Quarterly Journal of Ideology
Description: 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.
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword by Paulo Freire
  • Preface by Stanley Aronowitz
  • Introduction: Educated Hope, Public Pedagogy and the Politics of Resistance
  • Theory and Critical Discourse
  • Critical Theory and Educational Practice
  • Schooling and the Politics Hidden Curriculum
  • Reproduction, Resistance, and Accommodation
  • Resistance and Critical Pedagogy
  • Ideology, Culture, and Schooling
  • Critical Theory and Rationality in Citizenship Education
  • Literacy, Ideology, and the Politics of Schooling
  • Conclusion: Toward a New Public Sphere
  • Bibliography
  • Index
LC Card Number: 2001025177
LCC Class: LB885
Dewey Class: 370
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