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America on the Edge: Henry Giroux on Politics, Culture, and ...

America on the Edge: Henry Giroux on Politics, Culture, and ...

H. Giroux

Key topics such as education and democracy, terrorism and security, and media and youth culture are critiqued in Giroux's signature style. This is a fascinating collection for Giroux fans and educators alike.
America at War with Itself

America at War with Itself

Henry Giroux

Praise for America at War with Itself: "This is the book Americans need to read now. No one is better than Henry Giroux at analyzing the truly dangerous threats to our society.
The Mouse that Roared: Disney and the End of Innocence

The Mouse that Roared: Disney and the End of Innocence

Henry A. Giroux

Henry Giroux shows how Disney atempts to hide befind a cloak of innocence and entertainment, while simultaneously exercising its influence as a major force on both global economics and cultural learning.
The Mouse that Roared: Disney and the End of Innocence

The Mouse that Roared: Disney and the End of Innocence

Henry A. Giroux

Henry A. Giroux explores the surprisingly diverse ways in which Disney, while hiding behind a cloak of innocence and entertainment, strives to dominate global media and shape the desires, needs, and futures of today's children.
Reading & Teaching Henry Giroux

Reading & Teaching Henry Giroux

Clar Doyle

This second part of Reading and Teaching Henry Giroux will contextualize, describe, and share some practical aspects of our pedagogical and cultural projects. The conceptual framework used here is a reader-focused narrative. It is our hope ...
Teachers as Intellectuals: Toward a Critical Pedagogy of ...

Teachers as Intellectuals: Toward a Critical Pedagogy of ...

Henry A. Giroux

a book for all practitioners and all members of the greater community. Giroux demands reader involvement, transformation, and empowerment.
Impure Acts: The Practical Politics of Cultural Studies

Impure Acts: The Practical Politics of Cultural Studies

Henry A. Giroux

The Practical Politics of Cultural Studies Henry A. Giroux. In writing this book, I have drawn on the help and work of a number of people. I owe an enormous theoretical debt to Lawrence Grossberg, Stuart Hall, Stanley Aronowitz, Robin Kelley, ...
Pedagogy and the Politics of Hope: Theory, Culture, and ...

Pedagogy and the Politics of Hope: Theory, Culture, and ...

Henry Giroux

Finally, in an essay written especially for this volume, Giroux analyzes the assault on education and teachers as public intellectuals that began in the Reagan-Bush era and continues today."
The Lagesse family history

The Lagesse family history

Richard L. Barrie

14 Sep 1938 Martinton, lL, 1st ch b. to Robert W. Giroux and Bessie H. Hathaway. She m. 1st in Jun ... Gloria Giroux b. 9 Jul 1967. 2a). TWlN Carol Giroux b. 9 Jul 1967 dau of Robert 'Bob' Hathaway Giroux and Gloria Giroux. She m. 1st 8 Aug ...
Ideology, Culture, and the Process of Schooling

Ideology, Culture, and the Process of Schooling

Henry A. Giroux

This book lays bare the ideological and political character of the positivist rationality that has been the primary theoretical underpinning of educational research in the United States.
Stormy Weather: Katrina and the Politics of Disposability

Stormy Weather: Katrina and the Politics of Disposability

Henry A. Giroux

Uses the handling of the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina to examine the strengthening of antidemocratic forces and their threat to freedoms in the United States.
Party Polarization in Congress

Party Polarization in Congress

Sean M. Theriault

41–9. Giroux, GregoryL.2001. “Remaps' Clear Trend: Incumbent Protection.” CQ Weekly,November 3,pp. 2627–32. Giroux, GregoryL. 2005.“ALinein theSuburban Sand.”CQ Weekly,June 27, p.1714. Green, JohnC., and PaulS. Herrnson. 2002.
Disposable Futures: The Seduction of Violence in the Age of ...

Disposable Futures: The Seduction of Violence in the Age of ...

Henry Giroux

A sweeping exploration of how neoliberalism normalizes violence and spectacle, and the counterforce radical imagination plays in advancing nonviolent alternatives
Neoliberalism's War on Higher Education

Neoliberalism's War on Higher Education

Henry Giroux

Addresses what educators, young people, and concerned citizens can do to reclaim higher education from market-driven neoliberal ideologies.
Phenomenology + Pedagogy

Phenomenology + Pedagogy

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Reviewed by Barbara Scott Winkler University of Michigan This is an ambitious, even visionary book. In it, U.S. educator Henry Giroux expands his previous critique of educational theory and begins to develop a radical pedagogy that not only ...
The Violence of Organized Forgetting: Thinking Beyond ...

The Violence of Organized Forgetting: Thinking Beyond ...

Henry Giroux

See, forinstance, AnthonyDiMaggio,The RiseoftheTeaParty (NewYork: Monthly ReviewPress,2011); Paul Street and Anthony DiMaggio, CrashingtheTeaParty ( Boulder,Paradigm,2011); WillBunch, The Backlash:RightWing Radicals, ...
Postmodernism, Feminism, and Cultural Politics: Redrawing ...

Postmodernism, Feminism, and Cultural Politics: Redrawing ...

Henry A. Giroux

This book introduces central assumptions that govern postmodern and feminist theory, offering educators a language to create new ways of conceiving pedagogy and its relationship to social, cultural, and intellectual life.
The Abandoned Generation: Democracy Beyond the Culture of Fear

The Abandoned Generation: Democracy Beyond the Culture of Fear

Henry A. Giroux

A provocative critique of the U.S. political system and popular culture's influence on young people contends that today's children are being victimized and intimidated by the government's quick-fix solutions to contemporary problems.
Education Under Siege: The Conservative, Liberal and Radical ...

Education Under Siege: The Conservative, Liberal and Radical ...

Stanley Aronowitz

11. Michael Apple, “The Hidden Curriculumand the Nature of Conflict,” Interchange2(1971), pp.27–40; Henry A.Giroux and AnthonyN.Penna, “ SocialEducation inthe Classroom:The Dynamicsofthe Hidden Curriculum,”Theory andResearch in ...
America's Education Deficit and the War on Youth: Reform ...

America's Education Deficit and the War on Youth: Reform ...

Henry A. Giroux

Will Bunch, The Backlash: Right-Right Radicals, High-Def Hucksters, and Paranoid Politics in the Age of Obama (New York: HarperCollins, 2010); Paul Street and Anthony DiMaggio, Crashing the Tea Party (Boulder, CO: Paradigm, 2011); and ...
Dangerous Thinking in the Age of the New Authoritarianism

Dangerous Thinking in the Age of the New Authoritarianism

Henry A. Giroux

As Jennifer M. Silva points out in her insightful book, Coming up Short, coming of age for young people “is not just being delayed but fundamentally dismantled by drastic economic restructure, profound cultural transformations, and deepening ...
Zombie Politics and Culture in the Age of Casino Capitalism

Zombie Politics and Culture in the Age of Casino Capitalism

Henry A. Giroux

This book uses the metaphor not only to suggest the symbolic face of power: beginning and ending with an analysis of authoritarianism, it attempts to mark and chart the visible registers of a kind of zombie politics, including the emergence ...
Voices of Angels: A Novel

Voices of Angels: A Novel

Gloria H. Giroux

A Novel Gloria H. Giroux. Voices of Angels A Novel GLORIA H. GIROUX VOICES OF ANGELS A NOVEL Copyright © 2015 Gloria H.
Bloodfire: Prequel to the Chay Trilogy

Bloodfire: Prequel to the Chay Trilogy

Gloria H. Giroux

Prequel to the Chay Trilogy Gloria H. Giroux. between Sar-Chay's ship and its Ptolemii opponent. The Liherty was in trouble. Two of the secondary Ptolemii vessels, the AmunRa and the Augustine, had joined the battle against the ship and her ...
Baptism and marriage repertoire, St Stephen Catholic Church, ...

Baptism and marriage repertoire, St Stephen Catholic Church, ...

Vermont French-Canadian Genealogical Society

... Leona A. Giroux, Wilfrid A. & Lassonde, Alice Res: Ethan Allen Air Base, VT Res: Brunswick, ME Witnesses: Rogers Leonard & Gloria Giroux Town: Colchester, VT Church: St Edmund Mission Cassell, Irene Alice 17 Jul 1954 Peters, Kenneth ...
Comprendre la vieillesse: Essai sur les sciences sociales et ...

Comprendre la vieillesse: Essai sur les sciences sociales et ...

Sarah Carvallo

Sarah Carvallo Elodie Giroux Comprendre la vieillesse Cet ouvrage a bénéficié du soutien de la Région Rhône Alpes, daris le cadre du Clusfer Ersfu 14, 2010- 2012 E.M.E. Préface Sarah Carvallo, Élodie Giroux Partout dans les pays ...
Border Crossings: Cultural Workers and the Politics of Education

Border Crossings: Cultural Workers and the Politics of Education

Henry A. Giroux

Schooling and cultural politics - Cultural workers and cultural pedagogy_
Fugitive Cultures: Race, Violence, and Youth

Fugitive Cultures: Race, Violence, and Youth

Henry A. Giroux

Fugitive Cultures examines how youth are being increasingly subjected to racial stereotyping and violence in various realms of popular culture, especially children's culture.

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