Theory and Resistance in Education: Towards a Pedagogy for the Opposition

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Now updated in its 3rd edition, this classic work from Giroux provides theoretical and political tools for addressing how pedagogy, knowledge, resistance, and power can be analyzed within and across a variety of cultural spheres, including but not limited to the schools. This edition includes four new chapters covering critical pedagogy and resistance, cultural politics and public intellectuals, challenging gangster capitalism and the lies and violence of fascist politics. These new chapters show how the calls for radical social change made in the previous edition are needed now more than ever in the struggle against fascism, authoritarianism, racism and other systems of oppression that are still built into society and our education systems. The book includes a foreword by Paulo Freire and a preface by Stanley Aronowitz.

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Giroux uses concepts such as ideology, culture, and power to clarify how schools and education serve the interests of a select few in society Giroux offers the educator a hope, and a means, for influencing change. * Language Arts *
This book [is] of immense importance. Giroux is a first-rate thinker struggling with theoretical problems of incredible difficulty... A provocative book. * Quarterly Journal of Ideology *
Marks a significant moment in the development of a radical theory of education. * Curriculum Inquiry *

Author Bio

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.