Henry Giroux
AKA: Giroux · Henry A. Giroux
The Record
Henry Giroux is how Freire's argument reached American classrooms. He did it with books that schools of education still assign, and he brought the Frankfurt School into the same argument.
Theory and Resistance in Education came out in 1983 with a foreword by Freire. It works through the hidden curriculum, ideology and schooling. It asks whether schools reproduce the existing order or can be sites of resistance; Giroux answers that they can. The book is where the phrase critical pedagogy becomes the name of a field.
Education Under Siege followed in 1985, written with Stanley Aronowitz. It called for schools to become sites for the training of organic intellectuals. The term is Gramsci’s, and they chose it on purpose. Teachers as Intellectuals in 1988 completed the move. The teacher is a political actor rather than a technician delivering a curriculum, and the classroom is the position he holds.
Relationship Ledger
Giroux carried Freire into American teacher education.
McLaren's Life in Schools, in six editions since 1989, became a standard introduction to critical pedagogy for teachers in training. Source: Life in Schools: An Introduction to Critical Pedagogy in the Foundations of Education (sixth edition, 2015), Epilogue, p. 256
Documents
What Henry Giroux wrote, oldest first. The archive argues from these rather than about them, so they are listed with the standpoint and the class of each, and a reader is free to check any of it.
- Theory and Resistance in Education: Towards a Pedagogy for the OppositionBergin and Garvey, South Hadley
Referenced in
Records whose text names Henry Giroux. The list is rebuilt from the published prose and checked for drift.
- Critical pedagogy and the schoolsis mentioned in