Table of Contents

Foreword by Paulo Freire Preface by Stanley Aronowitz Introduction: Educated Hope, Public Pedagogy and the Politics of Resistance Theory and Critical Discourse Critical Theory and Educational Practice Schooling and the Politics Hidden Curriculum Reproduction, Resistance, and Accommodation Resistance and Critical Pedagogy Ideology, Culture, and Schooling Critical Theory and Rationality in Citizenship Education Literacy, Ideology, and the Politics of Schooling Conclusion: Toward a New Public Sphere Bibliography Index

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Provides new theoretical and political tools for addressing how pedagogy, knowledge, resistence, and power can be analyzed.

About the Author

HENRY A. GIROUX is Waterbury Chair Professor of Education, The Pennsylvania State University.

Reviews

?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

"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

"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

"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