Henry Giroux

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birthplace = Providence, Rhode Island, United States
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occupation = Author, University Professor
institution = McMaster University
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subject = Critical pedagogy, Cultural studies, youth studies, Higher education, Cultural politics, Social theory
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website = http://www.henryagiroux.com

Henry Giroux, born September 18 1943 in Providence, is a US cultural critic. He is one of the founding theorists of critical pedagogy in the United States, and is best known for his pioneering work in public pedagogy, cultural studies, youth studies, higher education, media studies, and critical theory.

A high school social studies teacher in Barrington, Rhode Island for six years [Personal Essay "The Kids Aren't Alright: Youth Pedagogy and Cultural Studies" in "Fugitive Cultures' [http://www.henryagiroux.com/bio.html] Retrieved 21/09/08.] , Giroux has held positions at Boston University, Miami University, and Penn State University. In 2005, Giroux's arrival as the Global TV Network Chair in English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario was hailed as a success for the University [(2005) [http://www.mcmaster.ca/ua/opr/nms/advisories/2005/giroux.html "McMaster attracts widely acclaimed U.S. scholar Henry Giroux"] McMaster University. Retrieved 8/6/07.] [(2005) [http://www.peak.sfu.ca/the-peak/2004-2/issue8/ne-giroux.html ""McMaster University snags famous theory professor,"] "e. Peak News." Simon Frasier University. Retrieved 8/6/07.] .

Giroux has published more than 35 books and 300 academic articles, and is published widely throughout education and cultural studies literature. [ [http://www.henryagiroux.com/publications.htm Dr. Henry A. Giroux - Books] . Personal website. Retrieved 8/6/07.] Since that arriving at McMaster, Giroux has been a featured faculty lecturer [(2005) [http://www.mcmaster.ca/ua/opr/nms/advisories/2005/giroux.html "Giroux's inaugural lecture takes aim at our current 'Dark Age'"] . McMaster University. Retrieved 8/6/07.] , and has published nine books, [ [http://www.henryagiroux.com/books.htm "Dr. Henry A. Giroux Books,"] Personal website. Retrieved 8/6/07.] including his most recent work, "The University in Chains: Confronting the Military-Industrial-Academic Complex". [ [http://www.paradigmpublishers.com/Books/BookDetail.aspx?productID=168000 "The University in Chains"] , Paradigm Publishers. Retrieved 8/7/07.]

Routledge named Giroux as one of the top fifty educational thinkers of the modern period in 2002. [Palmer, J. (2002) "Fifty Modern Thinkers on Education: From Piaget to the Present Day (Fifty Key Thinkers) (Routledge Key Guides)." Routledge Publishers. p. 208.]

Biography

Henry Giroux was born in Providence, Rhode Island. After teaching high school history in Barrington, Rhode Island for six years, Giroux earned his doctorate at Carnegie-Mellon in 1977. His first position as a professor was in education at Boston University, which he held for the next six years. Following that he became an education professor and renowned scholar in residence at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. While there he also served as the founding Director of the Center for Education and Cultural Studies. [(n.d.) [http://www.education.miami.edu/ep/contemporaryed/Henry_Giroux/henry_giroux.html Henry Giroux] Miami University.]

In 1992 he began a 12-year position in the Waterbury Chair Professorship at Penn State University, also serving as the Director of the Waterbury Forum in Education and Cultural Studies. [(n.d.) [http://www.criticalvoices.ie/speakers/display.asp?ArtistID=4 Henry A. Giroux - Biography] The Arts Council - Dublin.] In 2004 Giroux became the Global Television Network Chair in English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. [(n.d.) [http://www.inthesetimes.com/about/author/3959/ Henry Giroux - Author Bio] "In These Times" magazine.] He currently lives there with his wife, Dr. Susan Searls Giroux.

Theory

Giroux has been an important contributor to the field known as critical pedagogy. His work draws from a number of theoretical traditions extending from Marx to Paulo Freire to Zygmunt Bauman. He is also an advocate of radical democracy, vigorously opposing the anti-democratic tendencies of neoliberalism, militarism, empire, religious fundamentalism, and the ongoing attacks against the social state, the social wage, youth, the poor, and public and higher education. Giroux's most recent work focuses on public pedagogy, a term he coined to describe the nature of the spectacle and the new media, and the political and educational force of global culture.

Accomplishments

Henry Giroux's writing has won many awards, and is written for a range of public and scholarly sources. Giroux has written more than 35 books; published almost 300 papers; and hundreds of chapters in others' books, articles in magazines, and more. Seven of Giroux's books have been chosen as significant books of the year by the American Educational Studies Association.

While at Miami University Giroux was named as a Distinguished Scholar. He won the Visiting Distinguished Professor Award for 1987-1988 at the University of Missouri–Kansas City. Between 1992 and 2004, he held the Waterbury Chair Professorship at Penn State University. He was awarded the Visiting Asa Knowles Chair Professorship by Northeastern University in 1995. He won a Tokyo Metropolitan University Fellowship for Research in August 1995.

In 1998 Giroux was selected to the Laureate Chapter of Kappa Delta Phi. He was awarded a Distinguished Visiting Lectureship in art education at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1998 and 1999. He was the winner of a Getty Research Institute Visiting Scholar Award for May-June, 2000. He was selected as a Hooker Distinguished Visiting Professor at McMaster University in 2001.

Giroux was named as one of the top fifty educational thinkers of the modern period in "Fifty Modern Thinkers on Education: From Piaget to the Present" as part of Routledge’s "Key Guides Publication Series" (2002). In 2001 he won the James L. Kinneavy Award for the most outstanding article published in JAC in 2001, which was presented by the Association of Teachers of Advanced Composition at the Conference on College Composition and Communication Chicago in March 2002.

Giroux was selected as the Barstow Visiting Scholar for 2003 at Saginaw Valley State University. In 2005, he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Letters by Memorial University of Newfoundland. [(2004) [http://chronicle.com/subscribe/login?url=http%3A%2F%2Fchronicle.com%2Fweekly%2Fv50%2Fi38%2F38a00801.htm "McMaster U. Woos Education Scholar With Job for His Wife"] , "Chronicle of Higher Education." 28 May 2004]

Books by Giroux

In addition to being a co-Editor-in-chief of the "Review of Education, Pedagogy and Cultural Studies" [" [http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/journal.asp?issn=1071-4413&linktype=5 Review of Education, Pedagogy and Cultural Studies] " Taylor and Francis. Retrieved 7/21/07] published by Taylor and Francis, Giroux has published the following books:
* "Ideology, Culture and the Process of Schooling." (1981)
* "Theory and Resistance in Education." (1983)
* "The Hidden Curriculum and Moral Education: Deception or Discovery?." (with David E. Purpel)(1983)
* "Education Under Siege: The Conservative, Liberal, and Radical Debate Over Schooling." (co-authored with Stanley Aronowitz) (1985)
* "Schooling and the Struggle for Public Life." (1988)
* "Teachers as Intellectuals: Toward a Critical Pedagogy of Learning." (1988)
* "Border Crossings: Cultural Workers and the Politics of Education." (1992)
* "Between Borders: Pedagogy and the Politics of Cultural Studies" (with Peter McLaren) (1993)
* "Disturbing Pleasures: Learning Popular Culture." (1994)
* "Fugitive Cultures: Race, Violence, and Youth Routledge Publishing." (1996)
* "Living dangerously: Multiculturalism and the politics of difference." (1996)
* "The Mouse that Roared: Disney and the End of Innocence." (1999)
* "Stealing Innocence: Corporate Culture's War on Children." (2001)
* "Breaking In to the Movies: Film and the Culture of Politics." (2002)
* "The Abandoned Generation: Democracy Beyond the Culture of Fear." (2004)
* "Terror of Neoliberalism." (2004)
* "Against the New Authoritarianism." (2005)
* "Beyond the Spectacle of Terrorism: Global Uncertainty and the Challenge of the New Media." (2006)
* "America on the Edge: Henry Giroux on Politics, Education, and Culture." (2006)
* "The Giroux Reader." (2006)
* "Stormy Weather: Katrina and the Politics of Disposability." (2006)
* "The University in Chains: Confronting the Military-Industrial-Academic Complex." (2007)

Books about Giroux

* "Reading & Teaching Henry Giroux." Doyle & Singh. (2006)

ee also

* Paulo Freire
* Peter McLaren
* Joe L. Kincheloe
* Teaching for social justice
* Youth empowerment

References

External links

* [http://www.henryagiroux.com Henry Giroux's Website]
* [http://freechild.org/ReadingList/henry_giroux.htm Reading list] at The Freechild Project website
* [http://www.education.miami.edu/ep/contemporaryed/Henry_Giroux/henry_giroux.html Biographical details]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgdVCnTTqXA Henry Giroux's brief interview on YouTube]