Reviews for Theory of education

The average rating for Theory of education based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2021-01-10 00:00:00 Jason Wilkey Giroux is a rebel! Notes from thesis: The logic of institutions is that they are aligned with government, and as long as this is the case, the bodies intersecting in the spaces will remain complicit (Giroux, 2008) Giroux (2008) demonstrates the connection of space and agency in the following: "In a society in which the public sphere is characterized by a culture of fear and public life has receded behind gated communities, a pervasive discourse of privatization coupled with the practice of brutalization embraces an utterly narrow and commodified definition of freedom and feeds a disinterest in politics while closing down any sense of responsibility for those who in a neoliberal capitalist society represent the losers, the unemployed, the incarcerated, the poor, the young, and the elderly." (p. 594-595) Understanding how pedagogies work is critical in acquiring the means to challenge and speak back to the authoritarian discourse (Arendt, 1976, 1977) - "from a position of critical agency" (Giroux, 2008, p. 611). Public pedagogy is set on and distributed in the public sphere of institutionalized sites such as, but not limited to, educational and cultural establishments as well as media platforms (Giroux, 2008). The Anglo and Euro centric discourse of academia, media, social media, various institutions working within the funding of governmental as well as non-governmental organizations and United Nations platforms, sets the defining relationships between the "developing" vs. "the developed." The language, from that viewpoint, is within the "impoverished vocabulary of privatization, individualism, and excessive materialism" and it does not encourage critique or the type of collective action that would change the comfort zone by which governments are in the service of investors (Giroux, 2008, p. 592).

Review # 2 was written on 2019-09-20 00:00:00 Lonnie Saenz Theory and Resistance in Education: Towards a Pedagogy for the Opposition