Teachers as Intellectuals: Toward a Critical Pedagogy of Learning / Edition 1

by Henry A. Giroux

Overview

"Teachers as Intellectuals is a book for all practitioners and all members of the general community. Giroux demands reader involvement, transformation, and empowerment. He helps understand that the political relationship between schools and society is neither artificial nor neutral nor necessarily negative. Rather, school personnel have a positive and dynamic political role to play." Educational Leadership "We are fortunate to have these ideas expressed so clearly and in one place. It is a very useful book." . . . Choice

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780897891561
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	08/30/1988
Series:	Critical Studies in Education Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	285
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.61(d)

About the Author

Henry A. Giroux holds the Chair for Scholarship in the Public Interest in English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University, Canada. His books include On Critical Pedagogy, 2nd Edition (2020), Race, Politics, and Pandemic Pedagogy (2021), Pedagogy of Resistance (2022), Insurrections (2023) and Fascism on Trial (2024), all published by Bloomsbury.

Table of Contents

Introduction to the 2024 edition by Henry Giroux
Foreword by Peter McLaren
Editor's Introduction by Paulo Freire
1. Rethinking the Language of Schooling
2. Rethinking the Language of Schooling
3. Toward a New Sociology of Curriculum
4. Social Education in the Classroom: The Dynamics of the Hidden Curriculum
5. Overcoming Behavioral and Humanistic Objectives
6. Literacy, Writing, and the Politics of Voice
7. Writing and Critical Thinking in the Social Studies
8. Mass Culture and the Rise of the New Illiteracy: Implications for Reading
9. Critical Pedagogy, Cultural Politics, and the Discourse of Experience
10. Culture, Power, and Transformation in the Work of Paulo Freire: Toward a Politics of Education
11. Teaching, Intellectual Work, and Education as Cultural Politics Teachers as Transformative Intellectuals
12. Curriculum Study and Cultural Politics
13. The Need for Cultural Studies
14. Teacher Education and the Politics of Democratic Reform
15. Toward a Language of Critique and Possibility
16. Crisis and Possibilities in Education
17. Reproducing Reproduction: The Politics of Tracking
18. Antonio Gramsci
19. Solidarity, Ethics, and Possibility in Critical Education
Index

Editorial Reviews

[Offers] educators ways for reflecting critically on their own practices and the relationship between schools and society.” —The Education Digest

“Teachers As Intellectuals is a book for all practitioners and all members of the greater community. Giroux demands reader involvement, transformation, and empowerment. He helps us understand that the political relationship between schools and society is neither artificial nor neutral nor necessarily negative. Rather, school personnel have a positive and dynamic political role to play.” —Educational Leadership

“We are fortunate to have these ideas expressed so clearly and in one place. It is a very useful book.” —Choice

“Giroux is one of the grand masters of left educational theory.” —Voice Literary Supplement

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