Henry Giroux

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Henry Armand Giroux (born June 18, 1943 in Providence , Rhode Island ) is a socially critical American author and professor of education .

He became known for his criticism of the American school system, his critical pedagogy based on Paulo Freire and his criticism of the representations of young people in popular culture.

From 1968 to 1975 Henry A. Giroux taught history at a high school in Barrington , Rhode Island. After receiving his PhD from Carnegie-Mellon University in 1977 , he became Professor of Education at Boston University . In 1983 he moved to Miami University in Oxford , Ohio , where he also became director of the Center for Education and Cultural Studies. Between 1992 and 2004, he held the Waterbury Chair of Education at Penn State University . He has been with McMaster University in Ontario since 2004 . Giroux is also a director in the Board of Truthout operates.

Henry A. Giroux wrote over 30 books and numerous articles in magazines and journals. He currently lives in Hamilton , Ontario , Canada with his wife, Susan Searls-Giroux.

Works

  • Ideology, Culture and the Process of Schooling (1981)
  • Theory and Resistance in Education (1983)
  • Education Under Siege (with Stanley Aronowitz ) (1985)
  • Schooling and the Struggle for Public Life (1988)
  • Teachers as Intellectuals: Toward a Critical Pedagogy of Learning (1988)
  • Border Crossings (1993)
  • The Mouse that Roared: Disney and the End of Innocence (1999)
  • Stealing Innocence: Corporate Culture's War on Children (2001)
  • Breaking In to the Movies: Film and the Culture of Politics (2002)
  • The Abandoned Generation: Democracy Beyond the Culture of Fear (2004)
  • Terror of Neoliberalism (2004)
  • Schooling and the Struggle for Public Life (2005)
  • Border Crossings: Cultural Workers and the Politics of Education (2005)
  • Stormy Weather: Katrina and the Politics of Disposability (2006)
  • The Giroux Reader (2006)
  • The University in Chains: Confronting the Military-Industrial-Academic Complex (2007)
  • Against the Terror of Neoliberalism: Beyond the Politics of Greed (2008)
  • Youth in a Suspect Society: Democracy or Disposability? (2009)
  • Politics Beyond Hope: Obama and the Crisis of Youth, Race, and Democracy (2010)
  • The Mouse that Roared: Disney and the End of Innocence. 2nd edition (with Grace Pollock ) (2010)
  • Hearts of Darkness: Torturing Children in the War on Terror (2010)
  • Zombie Politcs in the Age of Casino Capitalism (2011)
  • Education and the Public Sphere: Ideas of Radical Pedagogy (2011)
  • On Critical Pedagogy (2011)
  • The Public in Peril: Trump and the Menace of American Authoritarianism (2018)

German language publications by Henry A. Giroux

  • "Pedagogy and Utopia", Das Argument 227, pp. 619–631 (1998)
  • "Critical pedagogy and the rise of neoliberalism . For a connection between postmodernism and critical theory" Das Argument 246, pp. 325–333 (2002)

German language publications about Henry A. Giroux

  • Jürgen Neubauer: "Henry Giroux: Pedagogy and Utopia". The argument 227, pp. 615–619, (1998)
  • Jürgen Neubauer: "The discovery of hope". Frankfurter Rundschau , July 2, 1998.
  • Andreas Merkens: "Ideology, Criticism and Education". The argument 246 (2002), pp. 339–353 [1]
  • Patrick Steinwidder: "In and outside the academy ... About Henry A. Giroux and the film" The Insider "(2004). Online magazine 'MedienPädagogik" 3-02, April 16, 2004 ( PDF )

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personal data
SURNAME Giroux, Henry
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Giroux, Henry Armand (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American author and professor of education
DATE OF BIRTH June 18, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Providence , Rhode Island