| Description |
xii, 187 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Series |
Counterpoints ; v. 1 |
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Counterpoints (New York, N.Y.) ; v. 1.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [173]-183) and index. |
| Summary |
In Living Dangerously, Henry Giroux confronts one of the most important questions facing our educational system today: "How do we bring our children together as members of a democratic society that respects cultural difference?" Employing film criticism, political theory and an acute sense of contemporary culture, Giroux forces the reader to confront the walls of prejudice that divide us. He compels all readers, but especially educators, to forego a life of indifference and to live dangerously in order to tear those walls down and create a more just and democratic society. Living Dangerously will be of interest to anyone who believes that we can reform our educational system in order to create a society that celebrates the multifaceted possibilities existing within our culture today. |
| Contents |
Introduction / Joe Kincheloe -- 1. Education, Leadership and the Crisis of a Democratic Culture -- 2. Reclaiming the Social Pedagogy, Resistance, and Politics in Celluloid Culture -- 3. Rewriting the Politics of Identity and Difference Critical Pedagogy Without Illusions -- 4. Living Dangerously Identity Politics and the New Cultural Racism-Towards a Critical Pedagogy of Representation -- 5. Democracy and Difference Under Siege America 2000 and the Politics of Erasure -- 6. Language, Power and Clarity or "Does Plain Prose Cheat?" |
| Subject |
Critical pedagogy -- United States.
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Education -- Political aspects -- United States.
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Multiculturalism -- United States.
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Education -- United States -- Philosophy.
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| ISBN |
0820418323 alkaline paper |
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9780820418322 alkaline paper |
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