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Teachers as Intellectuals
Toward a Critical Pedagogy of Learning
Teachers as Intellectuals
Toward a Critical Pedagogy of Learning
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Description
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.
Table of Contents
Foreword by Peter McLaren
Editor's Introduction by Paulo Freire
1. Rethinking the Language of Schooling
2. Rethinking the Language of Schooling
3. Toward a New Sociology of Curriculum
4. Social Education in the Classroom: The Dynamics of the Hidden Curriculum
5. Overcoming Behavioral and Humanistic Objectives
6. Literacy, Writing, and the Politics of Voice
7. Writing and Critical Thinking in the Social Studies
8. Mass Culture and the Rise of the New Illiteracy: Implications for Reading
9. Critical Pedagogy, Cultural Politics, and the Discourse of Experience
10. Culture, Power, and Transformation in the Work of Paulo Freire: Toward a Politics of Education
11. Teaching, Intellectual Work, and Education as Cultural Politics Teachers as Transformative Intellectuals
12. Curriculum Study and Cultural Politics
13. The Need for Cultural Studies
14. Teacher Education and the Politics of Democratic Reform
15. Toward a Language of Critique and Possibility
16. Crisis and Possibilities in Education
17. Reproducing Reproduction: The Politics of Tracking
18. Antonio Gramsci
19. Solidarity, Ethics, and Possibility in Critical Education
Index
Product details

Published | 26 Dec 2024 |
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Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
Edition | 1st |
Extent | 288 |
ISBN | 9781350458611 |
Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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Reviews
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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.
Educational Leadership
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We are fortunate to have these ideas expressed so clearly and in one place. It is a very useful book.
Choice
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Giroux is one of the grand masters of left educational theory.
Voice Literary Supplement
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[Offers] educators ways for reflecting critically on their own practices and the relationship between schools and society.
The Education Digest
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This book is a vital tool for understanding the insidiousness of ideology and its power to deceive. Teachers as Intellectuals is a must-read for educators and citizens alike, challenging all of us to reclaim the critical thinking and intellectual freedom necessary to resist the forces that seek to control our minds and our futures. Don't just read it-act on it.
Donaldo Macedo, Distinguished Professor of Liberal Arts, University of Massachusetts Boston, USA
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In a world rife with uncertainty, Giroux emerges as a beacon of intellectual clarity. In his book, he delivers a potent critique of our current reality while reminding us of the enduring power of hope. "Teachers as Intellectuals" serves as a poignant reminder that even in the darkest corners of our world, the spirit of hope endures, guiding us towards a brighter future.
Sheila Landers Macrine, STEM Education & Teacher Development Special Education Coordinator, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, USA

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