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America on the edge : Henry Giroux on politics, culture, and education /
For more than 20 years Henry Giroux has challenged readers to address the political exploitation and manipulation of American youth. Now, this compelling new book offers a comprehensive selection of Giroux¿s best works. From his most influential classics to new, never before published essays, Americ...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, N.Y. :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2006.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- Henry Giroux on critical pedagogy and the responsibilities of the public intellectual
- pt. 1. America under siege : authoritarianism and democracy
- The conservative assault on America : cultural politics, education, and the new authoritarianism
- Democracy and the crisis of public education : co-authored with Susan Searls Giroux
- From Auschwitz to Abu Ghraib : rethinking representation as public pedagogy
- pt. 2. Against fundamentalism : resisting religious extremism and market orthodoxy
- Rapture politics and the passion of the religious right
- Academic entrepreneurs : the corporate takeover of higher education
- pt. 3. Media pedagogy : rethinking political and cultural literacy
- Roll over George Orwell : representations of Newspeak in Bush's America
- Breaking into the movies : film as cultural politics
- Nymphet fantasies : child beauty pageants and the politics of innocence
- pt. 4 Race, surveillance, and social justice
- Racial politics, individualism, and the collapse of the social
- Disposable youth, racism, and the politics of zero tolerance
- pt. 5. Militarization, masculinity, and the spectre of Fascism
- Waging war on democracy : the militarizing of public space
- Private satisfactions and public disorder : Fight Club, patriarchy, and the politics of masculine violence
- pt. 6. Youth, pedagogy, and the politics of hope
- The abandoned generation : the Urban Debate League and the politics of possibility
- Putting youth back into politics : reclaiming education and hope in dark times
- Translating the future : speaking to graduating youth.