| Description |
xviii, 273 pages ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [210]-265) and index. |
| Contents |
Preface: State of crisis -- Section one. Pandemic landscapes. Pandemic politics and pedagogy in the age of the coronavirus -- Militarized pandemics and the language of war -- Section two. Populism and the crisis of education. The ugly terror of a fascist abyss and the politics of depoliticization -- The populist pandemic and the plague of thoughtlessness -- Section three. The promise of history. Reading history against fascism in the age of Trump -- Law and disorder in the age of organized forgetting -- Section four. Thinking beyond plagues. The plague of inequality in the age of pandemics -- Conclusion: Thinking beyond a Covid-19 world. |
| Summary |
Giroux argues that education and critical pedagogy are needed now more than ever to combat injustices in our society caused by fake news, toxic masculinity, racism, consumerism and white nationalism. At the heart of the book is the idea that pedagogy has the power to create narratives of desire, values, identity, and agency at time when these narratives are being manipulated to promote right wing populism and emerging global fascist politics. The book expands on the notion of the plague as not only a medical crisis but also a crisis of politics, ethics, education, and democracy itself. The chapters cover a range topics beginning with historical perspectives on fascism and moving on to issues of social atomization, depoliticization, neoliberal pedagogy, the scourge of staggering inequality, populism, and pandemic pedagogy. The book concludes with a call for educators to make education central to politics, develop a discourse of critique and possibility, reclaim the vision of a radical democracy, and embrace their role as powerful agents of change. --From publisher description. |
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Education and state.
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Education -- Social aspects.
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Education -- Political aspects.
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Education -- Political aspects.
(OCoLC)fst00902728
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Education and state. (OCoLC)fst00902835
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Education -- Social aspects.
(OCoLC)fst00902773
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| Added Title |
Education in a time of crisis |
| Other Form: |
Online version: Giroux, Henry A. Race, politics, and pandemic pedagogy. London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2021 9781350184459 (OCoLC)1232174170 |
| ISBN |
9781350184428 hardcover |
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135018442X hardcover |
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9781350184435 paperback |
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1350184438 paperback |
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9781350184459 electronic book |
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9781350184442 electronic book |
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