Henry Giroux

Henry A. Giroux currently holds the McMaster University Chair for Scholarship in the Public Interest in the English and Cultural Studies Department and the Paulo Freire Distinguished Scholar Professorship in Critical Pedagogy. He also holds a Distinguished Visiting Professorship at Ryerson University. In 2007, he was named by the Toronto Star as one of the “12 Canadians Changing the Way We Think.” He is a frequent contributor to Truthout, CounterPunch, Truthdig, and other online journals. He has published over 400 scholarly articles. His most recent books include: Youth in Revolt: Reclaiming a Democratic Future (Paradigm 2013), America’s Educational Deficit and the War on Youth (Monthly Review Press, 2013), Neoliberalism’s War on Higher Education (Haymarket 2014), The Violence of Organized Forgetting (City Lights 2014) and Dangerous Thinking in the Age of the New Authoritarianism (Routledge 2015). Giroux is also a member of Truthout's Board of Directors.

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What Education Do We Need? (1/2)

Education & Democracy

Introduction by Jaroslav Anděl, Written by Henry Giroux

Introduction This first roundtable in the series What Education Do We Need? comprises two parts. Part one features a lead essay by Henry A. Giroux titled “Educated Hope in Dark

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Roundtables

Has the Art World Lost It?

By Jaroslav Anděl Luis Camnitzer Henry Giroux Hans Haacke, and 6 more

[roundtable_menu] [contributor]Luis Camnitzer, New York [excerpt]We must revitalize the word art and helped remove its ambiguities.[/excerpt] [/contributor] [contributor]Paolo Cirio, New York [excerpt]ArtCommodities.com proposes a new model for an innovative art market through an