Theory and Resistance in Education

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.

• Foreword by Paulo FreirePreface by Stanley AronowitzIntroduction: Educated Hope, Public Pedagogy and the Politics of Resistance1. Theory and Critical Discourse2. Critical Theory and Educational Practice3. Schooling and the Politics Hidden Curriculum4. Reproduction, Resistance, and Accommodation5. Resistance and Critical Pedagogy6. Ideology, Culture, and Schooling7. Critical Theory and Rationality in Citizenship Education8. Literacy, Ideology, and the Politics of Schooling9. Critical Pedagogy and the Politics of Resistance 10. Cultural Politics and Public Intellectuals in the Age of Emerging Fascism11. Challenging Gangster Capitalism and the politics of Normalization 12. Lies, Violence, and Fascist Politics Conclusion: Toward a New Public SphereBibliographyIndex

Giroux uses concepts such as ideology, culture, and power to clarify how schools and education serve the interests of a select few in society Giroux offers the educator a hope, and a means, for influencing change.