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Henry Giroux
Born
Henry Armand Giroux

(1943-09-18) September 18, 1943 (age 80)
Nationality
  • American
  • Canadian
Spouses
  • Jeanne Brady[11]
  • Susan Searls Giroux[11]
  • Ourania Filippakou
Academic background
Alma mater
ThesisThemes in Modern European History (1977)
Influences
Academic work
Discipline
School or tradition
Institutions
Influenced
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Henry Armand Giroux (born September 19, 1943) is an American-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.[12]

A high-school social studies teacher in Barrington, Rhode Island, for six years,[13] Giroux has held positions at Boston University, Miami University, and Pennsylvania State University. In 2004, Giroux began serving as the Global TV Network Chair in Communication at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario.

Early life and education

Henry Giroux was born on September 18, 1943, in Providence, Rhode Island, the son of Alice (Waldron) and Armand Giroux.[14][15] Giroux completed a Master of Arts degree in history at Appalachian State University in 1968. After teaching high-school social studies in Barrington, Rhode Island, for six years, Giroux earned a Doctor of Arts degree in history at Carnegie Mellon University in 1977.

Career

Giroux's first position as a professor was in education at Boston University, which he held for the next six years until he was controversially denied tenure by John Silber, the conservative president of the university.[16] 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.[17]

In 1992, he began a 12-year position in the Waterbury Chair Professorship at Pennsylvania State University, also serving as the Director of the Waterbury Forum in Education and Cultural Studies.[18] In 2004 Giroux became the Global Television Network Chair in Communication at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario.[19][20] 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

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 Association of Teachers of Advanced Composition 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.[21]

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.[22] 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. In 2021 he received a Doctor Honoris Causa from the Center for Latin American Studies in Education Inclusive (CELEI). In 2023, he was awarded an Honorary Deanship at Woxsen University, India.

For many years Giroux was co-Editor-in-chief of the Review of Education, Pedagogy and Cultural Studies, published by

Taylor and Francis.[23]

Reception

Giroux was the first to use the phrase critical pedagogy, according to Curry Malott,[24] and helped inaugurate the "critical turn in education".[25] In Leaders in Critical Pedagogy, he is identified as one of the "first wave" of critical pedagogues.[26]

His work has been critiqued on numerous fronts, from feminists like Patti Lather[27] and Elizabeth Ellsworth[28] and race scholars.[29]

Publications

As of 2021 Giroux had published more than 70 books, 200 chapters, and 500 articles.[30]

1980s

1990s

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

2000s

2010s

2020s

  • 2020: Neoliberalism's War on Higher Education, 2nd ed., Haymarket Books
  • 2020: On Critical Pedagogy, 2nd ed., Bloomsbury Academic
  • 2021: Race, Politics, and Pandemic Pedagogy: Education in a Time of Crisis, Bloomsbury Academic
  • 2022: "Pedagogy of Resistance: Against Manufactured Ignorance", Bloomsbury Academic
  • 2022: "On Inequality and Freedom," (Co-Authored with Lawrence Eppard, eds) Oxford University Press
  • 2023: "Insurrections: Education in the Age of Counter-Revolutionary Politics, Bloomsbury Academic
  • 2023 "Education, culture and struggles for democracy," Editora UFRJ Portugal
  • 2024: "Fascism on Trial: Education and the Possibility of Democracy (Co-Authored with Anthony DiMaggio), Bloomsbury Academic

See also

References

Footnotes

  1. ^ a b c Hudson, Mark (November–December 1999). "Education for Change: Henry Giroux and Transformative Critical Pedagogy". Against the Current. 2. No. 83. Retrieved February 24, 2022 – via Marxist Internet Archive.
  2. ^ Slott 2005, p. 304.
  3. ^ Langan 2014, p. 191.
  4. ^ a b c d e Besley 2012, p. 594.
  5. ^ Figueiredo & Siqueira 2020, p. 3; Pruyn 2018.
  6. ^ Besley 2012, p. 594; Peters 2012, p. 696; Weiner 2001, p. 437.
  7. ^ Besley 2012, p. 594; Peters 2012, p. 696.
  8. ^ Reitz, Charles; Spartan, Stephen (2011). Critical Work and Radical Pedagogy: Recalling Herbert Marcuse. p. 25. Cited in Smith 2015, p. 261.
  9. ^ Slott 2005, p. 301.
  10. ^ Pinar et al. 2008, p. 307.
  11. ^ a b Ruby 2014, p. 147.
  12. ^ Morrison 2001, p. 280.
  13. ^ H. Giroux, "The Kids Aren't Alright: Youth Pedagogy and Cultural Studies" in Fugitive Cultures. [1] Archived May 15, 2018, at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 21/09/08.
  14. ^ "Giroux, Henry A(rmand) 1943–" 2006, p. 149.
  15. ^ "Henry Giroux". Archived from the original on March 8, 2015. Retrieved March 22, 2015.
  16. ^ Provenzo, Eugene F. Jr. (October 6, 1995). "A Working-Class Intellectual Writes of His Discomfort". Retrieved November 23, 2022.
  17. ^ Provenzo, Eugene F. Jr. "Henry Giroux". Contemporary Educational Thought. University of Miami. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved October 6, 2021.
  18. ^ "Henry A. Giroux". Critical Voices. Dublin: Arts Council. Retrieved October 6, 2021.
  19. ^ "McMaster Attracts Widely Acclaimed U.S. Scholar Henry Giroux". Hamilton, Ontario: McMaster University. May 27, 2004. Retrieved October 6, 2021.
  20. ^ Buac, Jenny (June 21, 2004). "McMaster University Snags Famous Theory Professor". e.Peak. Burnaby, British Columbia. Canadian University Press. Archived from the original on June 25, 2007. Retrieved August 6, 2007.
  21. ^ Fogg, Piper (May 28, 2004). "McMaster U. Woos Education Scholar with Job for His Wife". The Chronicle of Higher Education. Washington. p. A8.
  22. ^ Ward, Olivia (January 27, 2012). "12 Canadians Changing the Way We Think". Toronto Star.
  23. ^ "Review of Education, Pedagogy and Cultural Studies". Taylor and Francis. Archived from the original on September 30, 2007. Retrieved July 21, 2007.
  24. ^ Malott 2016.
  25. ^ Gottesman 2016.
  26. ^ Porfilio & Ford 2015, p. xvii.
  27. ^ Lather 1988.
  28. ^ Ellsworth 1989.
  29. ^ Jennings & Lynn 2005.
  30. ^ Dr. Henry A. Giroux Archived May 14, 2017, at the Wayback Machine Personal website. Retrieved 5/30/16.

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