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- Title
Critical Pedagogy in the Age of Fascist Politics.
- Authors
GIROUX, HENRY
- Abstract
Neoliberalism views government as the enemy of the market--exceptwhen it benefits wealthy corporations, limits society tothe realm of the family and individuals, embraces a fixedhedonism, and challenges the very idea of the public good.Under neoliberalism, the political collapses into the personal andtherapeutic, rendering all problems a singular matter ofindividual responsibility, thus making it almost impossible forindividuals to translate private troubles into wider systemicconsiderations. Democracy should be a way of thinking abouteducation, one that thrives on connecting pedagogy to thepractice of freedom, social responsibility and the publicgood.[12] I want to conclude by making some suggestions,however incomplete, regarding what we can do as educators tosave public and higher education and connect them to thebroader struggle over democracy itself. Educators shouldteach students to engage in multiple literacies extending fromprint and visual culture to digital culture. If educators are going todevelop a politics capable of awakening students' critical,imaginative, and historical sensibilities, it is vital to engageeducation as a project of individual and collectiveempowerment--a project based on the search for truth, anenlarging of the civic imagination, and the practice of freedom.
- Subjects
FASCISTS; POLITICAL knowledge; POWER (Social sciences); POLITICAL science; CRITICAL pedagogy; TORTURE; IMAGINATION
- Publication
CounterPunch, 2023, p77
- ISSN
1086-2323
- Publication type
Article