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.
Henry A. Giroux holds the Chair for Scholarship in the Public Interest in English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University, Canada. His books include On Critical Pedagogy, 2nd Edition (2020), Race, Politics, and Pandemic Pedagogy (2021), Pedagogy of Resistance (2022), Insurrections (2023) and Fascism on Trial (2024), all published by Bloomsbury.
Introduction to the 2024 edition by Henry Giroux Foreword by Peter McLarenEditor's Introduction by Paulo Freire1. Rethinking the Language of Schooling2. Rethinking the Language of Schooling3. Toward a New Sociology of Curriculum4. Social Education in the Classroom: The Dynamics of the Hidden Curriculum5. Overcoming Behavioral and Humanistic Objectives6. Literacy, Writing, and the Politics of Voice7. Writing and Critical Thinking in the Social Studies8. Mass Culture and the Rise of the New Illiteracy: Implications for Reading9. Critical Pedagogy, Cultural Politics, and the Discourse of Experience10. Culture, Power, and Transformation in the Work of Paulo Freire: Toward a Politics of Education11. Teaching, Intellectual Work, and Education as Cultural Politics Teachers as Transformative Intellectuals12. Curriculum Study and Cultural Politics13. The Need for Cultural Studies14. Teacher Education and the Politics of Democratic Reform15. Toward a Language of Critique and Possibility16. Crisis and Possibilities in Education17. Reproducing Reproduction: The Politics of Tracking18. Antonio Gramsci19. Solidarity, Ethics, and Possibility in Critical EducationIndex
Teachers As Intellectuals is a book for all practitioners and all members of the greater community. Giroux demands reader involvement, transformation, and empowerment. He helps us understand that the political relationship between schools and society is neither artificial nor neutral nor necessarily negative. Rather, school personnel have a positive and dynamic political role to play.
Lawrence M. Eppard, Henry A. Giroux, Shippensburg University) Eppard, Lawrence M. (Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, McMaster University) Giroux, Henry A. (Chair for Scholarship in the Public Interest in the Department of English and Cultural Studies, Chair for Scholarship in the Public Interest in the Department of English and Cultural Studies, Lawrence M Eppard, Henry A Giroux