Striving against the Eclipse of Democracy Henry A. Giroux’s Critical Pedagogy for Social Justice

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This paper focuses on the work of Henry Giroux and attempts to provide a coherent overview and critical analysis of his extremely large output spanning almost thirty years. It traces the evolution of his thought throughout this period and discusses such aspects of his work and themes as his engagement with Freire’s work, his treatment of social class and race, his contribution to cultural studies, his trenchant critique of the Bush Jr years as well as of the corporisation of various aspects of the public sphere including schooling and higher education, his notion and analysis of different forms of ‘public pedagogy,’ his contibution to a politics of Educated Hope and to the development of a substantive democracy, and his treatment of the recurring theme of the war being waged on different fronts against youth and children.

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Mayo P. (2009) "Striving against the Eclipse of Democracy Henry A. Giroux’s Critical Pedagogy for Social Justice " Italian Journal of Sociology of Education, 1(3), 254-282. DOI: 10.14658/PUPJ-IJSE-2009-3-12  
Year of Publication
2009
Journal
Italian Journal of Sociology of Education
Volume
1
Issue Number
3
Start Page
254
Last Page
282
Date Published
10/2009
ISSN Number
2035-4983
Serial Article Number
12
DOI
10.14658/PUPJ-IJSE-2009-3-12
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