| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
xi, 264 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Henry Giroux on critical pedagogy and the responsibilities of the public intellectual -- pt. 1. America under siege : authoritarianism and democracy -- The conservative assault on America : cultural politics, education, and the new authoritarianism -- Democracy and the crisis of public education : co-authored with Susan Searls Giroux -- From Auschwitz to Abu Ghraib : rethinking representation as public pedagogy -- pt. 2. Against fundamentalism : resisting religious extremism and market orthodoxy -- Rapture politics and the passion of the religious right -- Academic entrepreneurs : the corporate takeover of higher education -- pt. 3. Media pedagogy : rethinking political and cultural literacy -- Roll over George Orwell : representations of Newspeak in Bush's America -- Breaking into the movies : film as cultural politics -- Nymphet fantasies : child beauty pageants and the politics of innocence -- pt. 4 Race, surveillance, and social justice -- Racial politics, individualism, and the collapse of the social -- Disposable youth, racism, and the politics of zero tolerance -- pt. 5. Militarization, masculinity, and the spectre of Fascism -- Waging war on democracy : the militarizing of public space -- Private satisfactions and public disorder : Fight Club, patriarchy, and the politics of masculine violence -- pt. 6. Youth, pedagogy, and the politics of hope -- The abandoned generation : the Urban Debate League and the politics of possibility -- Putting youth back into politics : reclaiming education and hope in dark times -- Translating the future : speaking to graduating youth. |
| Note |
35902004207458 c.1 Special Collec. Reitz. Gift of Charles Reitz. |
| Subject |
Critical pedagogy.
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United States -- Politics and government -- 2001-2009.
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| ISBN |
1403971595 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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1403971609 (alk. paper) |
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9781403971609 (alk. paper) |
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9781403971593 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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