Race, Politics, and Pandemic Pedagogy - Education in a Time of Crisis

Zusatztext Race, Politics, and Pandemic Pedagogy brilliantly demonstrates how the current moment of pandemic is rooted in a deeper crisis of white supremacy, fascism, neo-liberal capitalism, and the incessant attack on the public good. But, as always, Giroux doesn’t merely offer searing critical analysis. Instead, he shows how an engagement with critical pedagogy can stimulate the radical imagination, creating space for new critiques, new forms of resistance, and new social possibilities. This book is a political and intellectual balm. Informationen zum Autor Henry A. Giroux holds the Chair for Scholarship in the Public Interest in English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University, Canada. His books include American Nightmare: Facing the Challenge of Fascism (2018) and Against The Terror of Neoliberalism (2008) and On Critical Pedagogy, 2nd Edition (Bloomsbury Academic, 2020 ). Klappentext In this book Henry A. Giroux passionately 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. Vorwort With this book, Giroux shows how education and critical pedagogy are powerful vehicles for social and cultural change in a world where neoliberal and fascist politics are eroding our democratic rights and values. Zusammenfassung In this book Henry A. Giroux passionately 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface: State of Crisis Acknowledgements Section I Pandemic Landscapes 1. Pandemic Politics and Pedagogy in the Age of the Coronavirus 2. Militarized Pandemics and the Language of War Section II Populism and the Crisis of Education 3. The Ugly Terror of a Fascist Abyss and the Politics of Depoliticization 4. The Populist Pandemic and the Plague of Thoughtlessness Section III The Promise of History 5. Reading History Against Fascism in the Age of Trump 6. Law and Disorder in ...

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• Authors: Henry A Giroux, Henry A. Giroux
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2021
• EAN: 9781350184435
• ISBN: 978-1-350-18443-5
• No. of pages: 296
• Dimensions: 136 mm x 212 mm x 24 mm
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries