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Border crossings : cultural workers and the politics of education / Henry Giroux.

By: Giroux, Henry A [author.]Material type: TextTextPublication details: London : Routledge, 1992Description: vi, 256 pages : 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 978041590467 :; 0415904676Subject(s): Education - United States - Philosophy | Politics and education - United States | Educational anthropology - United StatesDDC classification: 370.19
Contents:
Pt.1. Schooling and cultural politics. Interview: The hope of radical education -- Postcolonial ruptures/democratic possibilities -- Crossing the boundaries of educational discourse: modernism, postmodernism, and feminism -- Decentering the canon: refiguring disciplinary and pedagogical boundaries -- Redefining the boundaries of race and ethnicity: beyond the politics of pluralism. pt.2. Cultural workers and cultural pedagogy. Interview: Critical pedagogy and cultural power -- Cultural studies, resisting difference, and the return of critical pedagogy -- Popular culture as a pedagogy of pleasure and meaning: decolonizing the body -- Leon Golub's radical pessimism: towards a critical pedagogy of representation -- Cultural workers and the pedagogy of cultural politics: writing against the empire.
Summary: In this collection of essays, Henry Giroux tries to reconceptualize academic discourse and academic boundaries to accommodate the many changes that are now taking place in higher education. The essays are organized around the theme of education's relationship to other disciplines.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Pt.1. Schooling and cultural politics. Interview: The hope of radical education -- Postcolonial ruptures/democratic possibilities -- Crossing the boundaries of educational discourse: modernism, postmodernism, and feminism -- Decentering the canon: refiguring disciplinary and pedagogical boundaries -- Redefining the boundaries of race and ethnicity: beyond the politics of pluralism. pt.2. Cultural workers and cultural pedagogy. Interview: Critical pedagogy and cultural power -- Cultural studies, resisting difference, and the return of critical pedagogy -- Popular culture as a pedagogy of pleasure and meaning: decolonizing the body -- Leon Golub's radical pessimism: towards a critical pedagogy of representation -- Cultural workers and the pedagogy of cultural politics: writing against the empire.

In this collection of essays, Henry Giroux tries to reconceptualize academic discourse and academic boundaries to accommodate the many changes that are now taking place in higher education. The essays are organized around the theme of education's relationship to other disciplines.

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