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Henry Giroux and Critical Pedagogy
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Henry Giroux and Critical Pedagogy
Giroux's role in Critical Pedagogy
Giroux noticed that students grouped according to their social classes were never allowed to grow beyond that status. He became politically active, educationally active, and a tremendous advocate for inclusion that allows growth for every student.
Henry Giroux and Joe Kincheloe discussing Critical Pedagogy and the influence of Paulo Freire
Henry Giroux came from a working-class background and had great familiarity with classism, racism, and sexism as he grew up. When he became a teacher at an Ivy League college, his awareness of the strata of classes made him hold on to his cultural capital and not give in to becoming one of the elite. He called this "border crossing," which allows him to have one foot in a higher social strata than the other and understand the cultures of both.
For Giroux, education and social justice are intertwined. He believes that each person has the positive potential to overcome social class. He believes that curriculum is a way of "organizing knowledge, values, and relationships of social power" (Wink, 2011, p.128).
Giroux is outspoken in his opinion that corporations, such as the Disney corporation, give cultural authority to the animated films made especially for children, who gobble up the cultural information within the animations as though they are gospel. He wrote The Mouse That Roared about the Disney corporation and the influence Mickey Mouse and his friends have on children worldwide, while the company makes millions of dollars annually to split among shareholders (Giroux, 2010).
Quotes from Giroux
References
Giroux, H. (2013) Segment: Henry Giroux on zombie politics. Retrieved June 23, 2014, from http://billmoyers.com/segment/henry-giroux-on-zombie-politics/
Wink, J. (2011) Critical pedagogy: Notes from the real world. Boston, MA: Pearson.
Biography
“Today, in the age of standardized testing, thinking and acting, reason and judgment have been thrown out the window just as teachers are increasingly being deskilled and forced to act as semi-robotic technicians good for little more than teaching for the test...”
" I never let go of my working-class sensibility, even though I had to learn middle-class skills and knowledge in order to be a border crosser—to cross over into a middle-class institution such as academia without burning the bridges that enabled me to get there."
- Born on September 18, 1943, in Providence, Rhode Island
- Earned basketball scholarship to a teaching college
- Taught high school social studies for 12 years in Barrington, Rhode Island
- Earned a doctorate at Carnegie-Mellon University in 1977
- Worked at Boston University, Miami University, Penn State University, and McMaster University
- Worked as a community organizer in a highly segregated neighborhood in Baltimore.