On critical pedagogy

"Alongside Paulo Freire, Henry A. Giroux is widely considered to be the founding father of critical pedagogy. This classic work represents his best writing on critical pedagogy spanning the past 40 years. The 2nd edition includes four new chapters covering the rise of fascist culture in America and across the globe and the dictatorship of ignorance in the age of Trump and post-truth. This impassioned work opens by discussing critical pedagogy in schools before extending the notion to the educational force of culture, politics, and society. Giroux analyses the increasingly empirical orientation of teaching, focusing on the culture of positivism and examines some of the major economic, social, and political forces undermining the promise of democratic schooling in both public and higher education. He argues against the tendency by both right wing and neo-liberal interests to reduce schooling to training, and students merely to customers. He points to the increasing attack on pubic and higher education by right-wing populists and the Trump administration in an age of growing authoritarianism. Giroux also considers the legacy of Freire and issues a fundamental challenge to educators, public intellectuals, and others who believe in the promise of radical democracy." --Amazon.com.

Previous edition: London: Continuum, 2011.

Pedagogy as cultural politics. 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 -- Critical pedagogy and the politics of youth. No bailouts for youth: education and pedagogy in an era of disposability -- Higher education and the politics and pedagogy of educated hope -- Neoliberalism, public pedagogy, and the legacy of Paulo Freire. Neoliberalism and the politics of public pedagogy -- Rethinking education as the practice of freedom: Paulo Freire and the promise of critical pedagogy -- Critical pedagogy against the plague of fascism. Rethinking critical pedagogy in the post-truth age -- Critical pedagogy in dark times -- Let's shut down the authoritarian machine -- Does critical pedagogy have a future? Life in zones of social abandonment: a time to break the spectacle of ignorance and violence / Brad Evans and Henry A. Giroux.