The Giroux Reader

Cover......Page 1
Half Title......Page 2
Title Page......Page 4
Copyright Page......Page 5
Table of Contents......Page 6
Introduction: Reading Henry Giroux......Page 8
PART I: Sociology of Education......Page 30
1 Theories of Reproduction and Resistance in the New Sociology of Education: Toward a Critical Theory of Schooling and Pedagogy for the Opposition......Page 32
2 Border Pedagogy in the Age of Postmodernism......Page 76
PART II: Cultural Studies and Cultural Politics......Page 96
3 Consuming Social Change: The “United Colors of Benetton”......Page 98
4 Doing Cultural Studies: Youth and the Challenge of Pedagogy......Page 118
PART III: The War against Youth......Page 152
5 Nymphet Fantasies: Child Beauty Pageants and the Politics of Innocence......Page 154
6 Disposable Youth and the Politics of Domestic Militarization: Mis/Education in the Age of Zero Tolerance......Page 176
PART IV: From Critical Pedagogy to Public Pedagogy......Page 208
7 Is There a Role for Critical Pedagogy in Language/Cultural Studies? An Interview with Henry A. Giroux......Page 210
8 Cultural Studies, Critical Pedagogy, and the Responsibility of Intellectuals......Page 224
9 Mouse Power: Public Pedagogy, Cultural Studies, and the Challenge of Disney......Page 248
PART V: The Politics of Higher Education......Page 260
10 Racial Politics, Pedagogy, and the Crisis of Representation in Academic Multiculturalism......Page 262
11 Youth, Higher Education, and the Crisis of Public Time: Educated Hope and the Possibility of a Democratic Future......Page 282
PART VI: Public Intellectuals and Their Work......Page 312
12 Paulo Freire and the Politics of Postcolonialism......Page 314
13 The Promise of Democracy and Edward Said’s Politics of Worldliness: Implications for Academics as Public Intellectuals......Page 326
Index......Page 342
Credits......Page 362
About the Author and Editor......Page 364