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Henry A. Giroux

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born

September 18, 1943 in Providence, Rhode Island, The United States

gender

male

website

http://www.henryagiroux.com/

genre

Social Sciences

influences

Karl Marx, Paulo Freire, Zygmunt Bauman

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American cultural critic. One of the founding theorists of critical pedagogy in the United States, he is best known for his pioneering work in public pedagogy, cultural studies, youth studies, higher education, media studies, and critical theory.

A high-school social studies teacher in Barrington, Rhode Island for six years, Giroux has held positions at Boston University, Miami University, and Penn State University. In 2005, Giroux began serving as the Global TV Network Chair in English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario.

Giroux has published more than 35 books and 300 academic articles, and is published widely throughout education and cultural studies literature. Since arriving at McMaster, Giroux has been a fea...more

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Books by Henry A. Giroux

Average rating: 3.80 · 331 ratings · 46 reviews · 68 distinct works

	The Mouse That Roared: Disney and the End of Innocence 3.36 avg rating — 69 ratings — published 1999 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Teachers as Intellectuals: Toward a Critical Pedagogy of Learning 4.38 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 1988 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Youth in a Suspect Society: Democracy or Disposability? 4.11 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2009	My rating:
	The Abandoned Generation: Democracy Beyond the Culture of Fear 3.35 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2003 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Border Crossings: Cultural Workers and the Politics of Education 4.16 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 1991 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Pedagogy And The Politics Of Hope: Theory, Culture, And Schooling: A Critical Reader 3.93 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 1997 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Theory and Resistance in Education: Towards a Pedagogy for the Opposition Revised and Expanded Edition (Critical Studies in Education and Culture Series) 3.87 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 1983 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The University in Chains: Confronting the Military-Industrial-Academic Complex 3.62 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2007	My rating:
	Schooling and the Struggle for Public Life: Democracy's Promise and Education's Challenge 4.10 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2005 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Take Back Higher Education: Race, Youth, and the Crisis of Democracy in the Post-Civil Rights Era by Henry A. Giroux, Susan Searls Giroux 4.10 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2004 — 3 editions	My rating:

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“In an alleged democracy, the image of the public sphere with its appeal to dialogue and shared responsibility has given way to the spectacle of unbridled intolerance, ignorance, seething private fears, unchecked anger, along with the decoupling of reason from freedom. … What this decline in civility, the emergence of mob behavior …suggests is that we have become one of the most illiterate nations on the planet. I don't mean illiterate in the sense of not being able to read … The new illiteracy is about more than learning how to read the book or the word; it is about learning how not to read the world. … As a result of this widespread illiteracy that has come to dominate American culture we have moved from a culture of questioning to a culture of shouting, and in doing so have restaged politics and power in both unproductive and anti-democratic ways.”
― Henry A. Giroux

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“Today, in the age of standardized testing, thinking and acting, reason and judgment have been thrown out the window just as teachers are increasingly being deskilled and forced to act as semi-robotic technicians good for little more than teaching for the test...”
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