HENRY GIROUX

Henry A. Giroux
Penn State University

Henry A. Giroux holds the Waterbury Chair Professorship and is currently the director of the Waterbury Forum in Education and Cultural Studies at Penn State University. His most recent books include: Breaking in to the Movies: Film and the Culture of Politics (Basil Blackwell, 2002); Beyond the Corporate University, edited with Kostas Myrsiades (Rowman and Littlefield, 2001); Public Spaces, Private Lives: Beyond the Culture of Cynicism (Rowman and Littlefield, 2001); Theory and Resistance in Education, 2nd edition (Bergin and Garvey, 2001); Impure Acts: the Practical Politics of Cultural Studies (Routledge, 2000); The Mouse That Roared: Disney and the End of Innocence (Rowman and Littlefield, 2000); Stealing Innocence: Corporate’s Culture’s War on Children (St. Martin’s Press, 2000), Channel Surfing: Racism, the Media, and the Destruction of Today's Youth (St. Martin's Press and MacMillan–England, 1998). His primary research areas are cultural studies, youth studies, critical pedagogy, popular culture, social theory, and the politics of public and higher education.

 

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About Henry A. Giroux, Ph. D.

Henry Armand Giroux was born September 18, 1943, in Providence, Rhode Island, the son of Armand and Alice (Waldron) Giroux.

Giroux received his B.S. from the University of Maine in 1977, his M.A. in 1978 at Appalachian State University, and his D. Arts from Carnegie-Mellon in 1977. Giroux taught high school history in Barrington, Rhode Island from 1968 to 1975. He then became professor of education at Boston University from 1977 to 1983. In 1983 he became professor of education and renowned scholar in residence at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio in 1983. He also served as Director at the Center for Education and Cultural Studies at Miami University. He is currently the Waterbury Chair Professor at Penn State University.

Giroux stated "My work has always been informed by the notion that it is imperative to make hope practical and despair unconvincing. My focus is primarily on schools and the roles they play in promoting both success and failure among different classes and groups of students. I am particularly interested in the way in which schools mediate - through both the overt and hidden curricula - those messages and values that serve to privilege some groups at the expense of others. By viewing schools as political and cultural sites as well as instructional institutions, I have tried in my writings to provide educators with the categories and forms of analyses that will help them to become more critical in their pedagogies and more visionary in their purposes. Schools are immensely important sites for constituting subjectivities, and I have and will continue to argue that we need to make them into models of critical learning, civic courage, and active citizenship."
 

Articles by Giroux

Democracy, Freedom, and Justice after September 11th: Rethinking the Role of Educators and the Politics of Schooling

Doing Cultural Studies: Youth and the Challenge of Pedagogy

Animating Youth: the Disnification of Children's Culture

Teenage Sexuality, Body Politics and the Pedagogy of Display

Racism and the Aesthetic of Hyperreal Violence

Slacking Off: Border Youth and Postmodern Education

also recommended:

Teaching in the Age of 'Political Correctness', Educational Forum, Winter 1995

Teachers, Public Life, and Curriculum Reform, Peabody Journal of Education, Spring 1994




Books by Giroux:

Education still under siege, Westport, 1993

Education under siege: the conservative, liberal, and radical debate over schooling, South Hadley, 1985

Fugitive cultures: race, violence, and youth, New York, 1996

The hidden curriculum and moral education: deception or discovery?, Berkeley, 1983

Ideology, culture & the process of schooling, Philadelphia, 1981

Pedagogy and the politics of hope: theory, culture, and schooling: a critical reader, Boulder, 1997

Popular culture, schooling, and everyday life, Granby, Mass., 1989

Postmodern education: politics, culture and social criticism, Minneapolis, 1991

Postmodernism, feminism, and cultural politics: redrawing educational boundaries, Albany, 1991

Schooling and the struggle for public life: critical pedagogy in the modern age, Minneapolis, 1988

Schooling for democracy: critical pedagogy in the modern age, London, 1989

Teachers as intellectuals: toward a critical pedagogy of learning, Granby, Mass., 1988

Theory and resistance in education: a pedagogy for the opposition, South Hadley, 1983
 

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