Henry Giroux

Henry Armand Giroux (born September 18, 1943) is an American and Canadian scholar and cultural critic. One of the founding theorists of critical pedagogy in the United States, he is best known for his pioneering work in public pedagogy, cultural studies, youth studies, higher education, media studies, and critical theory. In 2002 Routledge named Giroux as one of the top fifty educational thinkers of the modern period.^[1]

A high-school social studies teacher in Barrington, Rhode Island, for six years,^[2] Giroux has held positions at Boston University, Miami University, and Penn State University. In 2005, Giroux began serving as the Global TV Network Chair in English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario.^[3][4]

Early life and education[]

Henry Giroux was born in Providence, Rhode Island, the son of Alice (Waldron) and Armand Giroux.^[5][6] Giroux completed an M.A. in history at Appalachian State University in 1968. After teaching high-school social studies in Barrington, Rhode Island, for six years, Giroux earned a D.A. (Doctor of Arts) in history at Carnegie-Mellon in 1977.

Career[]

Giroux´s 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 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.^[7]

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.^[8] In 2004 Giroux became the Global Television Network Chair in English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario.^[9] In July 2014, he was named to the McMaster University Chair for Scholarship in the Public Interest. He is the Director of the McMaster Centre for Research in the Public Interest. He lives in Hamilton, Ontario, where he currently is a chaired professor for Scholarship in the Public interest at McMaster University. He is married to Ourania Filippakou.

Accomplishments[]

Giroux's writing has won many awards, and he has written for a range of public and scholarly sources. He has written more than 70 books; published more than 500 papers; and published hundreds of chapters in others' books, articles in magazines, and more.

While at Miami University, Giroux was named as a Distinguished Scholar. For 1987–1988 he won the Visiting Distinguished Professor Award at the University of Missouri–Kansas City. Between 1992 and 2004, he held the Waterbury Chair Professorship at Penn State University. In 1995, he was awarded the Visiting Asa Knowles Chair Professorship by Northeastern University and he won a Tokyo Metropolitan University Fellowship for Research.^{[citation needed]}

In 1998, Giroux was selected to the Laureate chapter of Kappa Delta Phi. in 1998 and 1999, he was awarded a Distinguished Visiting Lectureship in art education at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. For May–June 2000 he was the winner of a Getty Research Institute Visiting Scholar Award.^{[citation needed]} In 2001, he was selected as a Hooker Distinguished Visiting Professor at McMaster University.

In 2002 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" . In 2001 he won the James L. Kinneavy Award for the most outstanding article published in JAC in 2001, which was presented by the at the Conference on College Composition and Communication held in Chicago in March 2002. For 2002 he was named by Oxford University to deliver the Herbert Spencer Lecture.

For 2003 Giroux was selected as the Barstow Visiting Scholar at Saginaw Valley State University. In 2005, he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Letters by Memorial University of Newfoundland.^[10]

The University in Chains was named by the American Educational Studies Association as the recipient of the AESA Critics' Book Choice Award for 2008. He was named by the Toronto Star in 2012 as one of the top 12 Canadians Changing the Way We Think.^[11] Education and the Crisis of Public Values: Challenging the Assault on Teachers, Students, & Public Education was awarded a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title and has received the Annual O. L. Davis, Jr. Outstanding Book Award from the AATC (American Association for Teaching and Curriculum) and the AESA (American Educational Studies Association) Critics Choice Award 2012.

In 2015 he was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters degree from Chapman University in California. He is a winner of a Lifetime Achievement Award granted by the AERA. In 2015 he won two other major awards from Chapman University: the "Changing the World Award" and "The Paulo Freire Democratic Project Social Justice Award." Also during 2015, Giroux was honored with a Distinguished Alumni Award from Appalachian State University. In 2017 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of the West of Scotland. In 2019 he received an AERA Fellows Award and the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication’s Professional Freedom and Responsibility Award.

For many years Giroux was co-Editor-in-chief of the Review of Education, Pedagogy and Cultural Studies^[12] published by Taylor and Francis.

Reception[]

Giroux's work remains foundational in a range of fields.^[13] He is the first to use the phrase "critical pedagogy," according to Curry Malott,^[14] and helped inaugurate the "critical turn in education."^[15] In Leaders in Critical Pedagogy, he's identified as one of the "first wave" of critical pedagogues.^[16]

As any foundational scholar, his work has been critiqued on numerous fronts, from feminists like Patti Lather^[17] and Elizabeth Ellsworth^[18] and race scholars.^[19] Derek R. Ford has observed how Giroux's commitment to the public and democracy is compatible with capitalism^[20] and, more recently has critiqued Giroux's work as "zombie intellectualism," arguing that it "feeds off of existing political struggles but serves only to demotivate and demoralize them."^[21] David Backer recently critiqued Giroux's reading of Louis Althusser and argued that it, together with Michael Apple's reading of Althusser, laid the basis for a false dichotomy between resistance and reproduction in educational theory.^[22]

Malott builds a communist educational politics that is based on Sam Marcy's Global Class War theory and argues that Giroux's equation and condemnation of both Nazism and Communism amounts to "crossing class lines," and positions his entire corpus as an anti-communist break from Freire's earlier tradition.^[23]

Publications[]

As of 2021 Giroux had published more than 70 books, 200 chapters, and 500 articles and was published widely throughout education and cultural studies literature.^[24]

2010s

• 2021: Race, Politics, and Pandemic Pedagogy: Education in a Time of Crisis, Bloomsbury Academic ISBN 9781350184442
• 2020: On Critical Pedagogy, 2nd edition, Bloomsbury Academic ISBN 9781350144996
• 2020: Neoliberalism's War on Higher Education, 2nd edition, Haymarket Books ISBN 9781642590371, 9781642591842
• 2019: The New Henry Giroux Reader: The Role of the Public Intellectual in a Time of Tyranny, Myers Education Press ISBN 9781975500757
• 2019: The Terror of the Unforeseen, Los Angeles Review of Books
• 2018: "Pedagogia Critica para Tiempos Dificiles," Madrid, Spain: Mapas Colectivos
• 2018: American Nightmare: The Challenge of U.S. Authoritarianism, City Lights Publishers. ISBN 9780872867536
• 2018: The Public in Peril: Trump and the Menace of American Authoritarianism, Routledge. ISBN 9781138719033
• 2017: America at War with Itself, City Lights Publishers. ISBN 9780872867321
• 2016: America's Addiction to Terrorism, Monthly Review Press ISBN 9781583675700
• 2015: Dangerous Thinking in the Age of the New Authoritarianism, Routledge Publishers. ISBN 9781612058641
• 2015: Disposable Futures: The Seduction of Violence in the Age of Spectacle, City Lights Publishers. ISBN 9780872866584 (co-authored with Brad Evans)
• 2014: The Violence of Organized Forgetting: Thinking Beyond America's Disimagination Machine, City Lights Publishers. ISBN 9780872866195
• 2014: Neoliberalism's War on Higher Education, Chicago, IL: Haymarket Books / Toronto, ON: Between the Lines Books. ISBN 9781608463343 (Haymarket Books); ISBN 9781771131124 (Between the Lines Books)
• 2013: Public Intellectuals Against the Neoliberal University, philosophersforchange.org link
• 2013: Neoliberalism, Education, Terrorism: Contemporary Dialogues, Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers (co-authored with Jeffrey DiLeo, Sophia McClennen, and Kenneth Saltman)
• 2013: America's Education Deficit and the War on Youth, New York: Monthly Review Press
• 2013: Youth in Revolt: Reclaiming a Democratic Future, Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers
• 2012: Twilight of the Social: Resurgent Publics in the Age of Disposability, Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers
• 2012: Disposable Youth: Racialized Memories, and the Culture of Cruelty, New York: Routledge
• 2011: Education and the Crisis of Public Values: Challenging the Assault on Teachers, Students, & Public Education. New York: Peter Lang Publishing, Inc. ISBN 9781433112164
  • 2015: second edition appears, w/ updated 'Introduction' & author Interviews, as Education and the Crisis of Public Values: Challenging the Assault on Teachers, Students, and Public Education. ISBN 9781433130670
• 2011: On Critical Pedagogy, New York: Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 978-1441116222
• 2011: Education and the Public Sphere: Ideas of Radical Pedagogy, Cracow, Poland: Impuls (co-authored with Lech Witkowski)
• 2011: Zombie Politics in the Age of Casino Capitalism, New York: Peter Lang
• 2010: Hearts of Darkness: Torturing Children in the War on Terror, Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers
• 2010: The Mouse that Roared: Disney and the End of Innocence, 2nd Edition. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (co-authored with Grace Pollock)
• 2010: Politics Beyond Hope: Obama and the Crisis of Youth, Race, and Democracy, (2010) Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers

2000s

• 2009: Youth in a Suspect Society: Democracy or Disposability?, London: Palgrave Macmillan
• 2008: Against the Terror of Neoliberalism: Beyond the Politics of Greed, Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers
• 2007: The University in Chains: Confronting the Military-Industrial-Academic Complex, Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers
• 2006: Stormy Weather: Katrina and the Politics of Disposability, Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers
• 2006: The Giroux Reader, Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers (edited by Christopher Robbins)
• 2006: America on the Edge: Henry Giroux on Politics, Education, and Culture, London: Palgrave Macmillan
• 2006: Beyond the Spectacle of Terrorism: Global Uncertainty and the Challenge of the New Media, Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers
• 2005: Against the New Authoritarianism: Politics after Abu Ghraib, Winnipeg, MAN: Arbeiter Ring Publishing / Oakland, CA: AK Press
• 2004: Terror of Neoliberalism: Authoritarianism and the Eclipse of Democracy, Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers
• 2004: Take Back Higher Education, London: Palgrave Macmillan (co-authored with Susan Searls Giroux)
• 2004: The Abandoned Generation: Democracy Beyond the Culture of Fear, London: Palgrave Macmillan
• 2002: Public Spaces/Private Lives: Democracy Beyond 9/11, Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• 2002: Breaking In to the Movies: Film and the Culture of Politics, Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers
• 2000: Stealing Innocence: Corporate Culture's War on Children, London: Palgrave Macmillan
• 2000: Impure Acts: The Practical Politics of Cultural Studies, New York: Routledge

1990s

• 1999: The Mouse that Roared: Disney and the End of Innocence, Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. ISBN 9781442201439
• 1998: Channel Surfing: Racism, the Media, and the Destruction of Today's Youth, New York: St. Martin's Press
• 1997: Pedagogy and the Politics of Hope: Theory, Culture, and Schooling, A Critical Reader, Boulder, CO: Westview Press
• 1996: Counternarratives: Cultural Studies and Critical Pedagogies in Postmodern Spaces, New York: Routledge (co-authored with Peter McLaren, Colin Lankshear, and Mike Cole)
• 1996: Fugitive Cultures: Race, Violence, and Youth, New York: Routledge
• 1994: Disturbing Pleasures: Learning Popular Culture, New York: Routledge
• 1993: Living Dangerously: Multiculturalism and the Politics of Difference, New York: Peter Lang
• 1993: Between Borders: Pedagogy and the Politics of Cultural Studies New York: Routledge (co-edited with Peter McLaren)
• 1992: Border Crossings: Cultural Workers and the Politics of Education, New York: Routledge
• 1991: Postmodern Education: Politics, Culture, and Social Criticism, Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press (co-authored with Stanley Aronowitz)

1980s

• 1989: Critical Pedagogy, The State, and the Struggle for Culture. Albany: State University of New York Press (co-edited with Peter McLaren).
• 1989: Popular Culture, Schooling, & Everyday Life. Westport, CT: Bergin & Garvey (co-edited with Roger Simon).
• 1988: Teachers as Intellectuals: Toward a Critical Pedagogy of Learning (Introduction by Paulo Freire & Foreword by Peter McLaren). Westport, CT: Bergin and Garvey Press. ISBN 9780897891561
• 1988: Schooling and the Struggle for Public Life, Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press
• 1985: Education Under Siege: The Conservative, Liberal, and Radical Debate Over Schooling, Westport, CT: Bergin and Garvey Press(co-authored with Stanley Aronowitz)
• 1983: The Hidden Curriculum and Moral Education: Deception or Discovery?, Berkeley, CA: McCutchan (co-edited with David E. Purpel)
• 1983: Theory and Resistance in Education, Westport, CT: Bergin and Garvey Press (Introduction by Paulo Freire)
• 1981: Curriculum & Instruction: Alternatives in Education. Berkeley: McCutchan (co-edited with Anthony Penna and William Pinar)
• 1981: Ideology, Culture and the Process of Schooling, Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press

See also[]

• Joe L. Kincheloe
• Stanley Aronowitz
• Youth empowerment

References[]

Further reading[]

• Doyle, C. & A. Singh (2006), Reading & Teaching Henry Giroux, New York: Peter Lang
• Gottesman, Isaac (2016). The Critical Turn in Education: From Marxist Critique to Poststructuralist Feminism to Critical Theories of Race. New York: Routledge.

External links[]

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