Full Description
First published in 1988, Teachers as Intellectuals encourages us to see schools as democratic spaces in which teachers and students work together to transform society. Giroux incorporates the most valuable insights of critical pedagogy into a more comprehensive and practical theory of schooling, committed to educating students in the language of critique and possibility. At the heart of his vision for schooling is the ability of the teacher to act as a transformative intellectual and to use critical pedagogy as a form of cultural politics. The book includes an introduction by Paulo Freire, a foreword by Peter McLaren and new introduction from the author.
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
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