Böcker av Henry A. Giroux

This text brings together Henry A. Giroux's best-known essays from the last 20 years, centring on important subjects on the cultural studies and pop culture agenda, including violence, race, class, gender, identity, politics, and children's culture.

Shows how the tragedy and suffering in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina signals a much larger crisis in the United States - one that threatens the very nature of individual freedom and inclusive democracy. This book explains how this crisis extends far beyond matters of leadership, governance, or the Bush administration.

One of the world's leading social critics and educational theorists, Henry A Giroux has contributed significantly to critical pedagogy, cultural studies, youth studies, social theory, and cultural politics. Giving an introduction to Giroux, this book offers a selected cross-section of Giroux's many scholarly and popular writings.

He helps us understand that the political relationship between schools and society is neither artificial nor neutral nor necessarily negative. Choice Offers educators ways for reflecting critically on their own practices and the relationship between schools and society.

Henry Giroux's latest work is a compelling collection of new and classic essays. Key topics such as education and democracy, terrorism and security, and media and youth culture are critiqued in Giroux's signature style. This is a fascinating collection for Giroux fans and educators alike.

Henry Giroux continues his critique of American culture and the way it impinges on the lives of our children. This time, Henry goes further, looking at the 'Bush Restoration' years, the attacks of September 11th and the way the world has been transformed for our children and young adults.

Public spending on education is under attack. In this challenging book Aronowitz and Giroux examine the thinking behind that attack in the USA and in other industrialized countries.

Drawing on new connections between postmodernism, feminism, cultural studies and critical pedagogy, the author reflects on the limits and possibilities of border crossings in the twenty-first century, and argues that in the post-9/11 world, borders have not been collapsing, but vigorously rebuilt.

No longer viewed as a public good, higher education increasingly is besieged by corporate, right-wing and conservative ideologies that want to decouple higher education from its legacy of educating students to be critical and autonomous citizens, imbued with democratic and public values.

A far-ranging critique of the rise of authoritarianism and white nationalism in the US and the consequences for democracy

Continuing his ongoing social critique, Henry Giroux now looks at the way corporate culture is encroaching on the lives of children by exploring three myths prevalent in our society: that the triumph of democracy is related to the triumph of the market;

Giroux attempts to rewrite the relationship between pedagogy and popular culture by expanding the notion of pedagogy both in terms of meaning and application, and addressing how this works through various cultural forms.