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Category Archives: Education
What does it mean to welcome Omar Khadr? University students and the lesson of hospitality
Tyler J. Pollard interviews David L. Clark Earlier this year, professor and public intellectual, Dr. David L. Clark, invited the President and Vice-Chancellor of McMaster University, Dr. Patrick Deane, to support offering Canadian citizen Omar Khadr a spot in the … Continue reading
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Tagged David L. Clark, democracy, hospitality, justice, McMaster University, militarization, Omar Khadr, peace, public intellectuals, public university, punishing state, the university, Tyler J. Pollard, war on youth, youth
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“Dissociated Consciousness[es]”: The Rising Voice of the Administrator and the Falling Voice of the Academic in the Winter 2015 Labour Disruption at the University of Toronto
by Oliver Lue On February 27th, 2015, CUPE 3902 Unit 1, representing 6000 teaching assistants, course instructors and lab instructors, began job action against the University of Toronto.1 Members of CUPE 3902 demanded an increase to the minimum yearly stipend … Continue reading
Pedagogy of the Precariat
by Petar Jandric and Henry A. Giroux Posted here is the final section of the interview. For the whole interview follow the link on the bottom of the page. Towards a pedagogy of the precariat Petar Jandric: As a common … Continue reading
Posted in Big Featured, Education, Featured Articles, Public Intellectuals
Tagged critical pedagogy, cultural studies, democracy, digital media, education, neoliberalism, precariat, social movements
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Educated Hope and the Promise of Democracy
The following is a commencement speech given by Professor Henry A. Giroux to the class of 2015 at Chapman University on May 24th, 2015. I am very moved and humbled to accept an honorary degree on this important occasion today, … Continue reading
Posted in Big Featured, Democracy, Education, Featured Articles, Public Intellectuals
Tagged democracy, education, Henry Giroux, higher education, neoliberalism, public education, United States, youth
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The University of the Spectacle
by James Compton The whole life of those universities in which modern conditions of managerialism prevail presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. All scholarship that was once directly lived has become mere representation. I am reminded of this … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Featured Articles, Past Feature, Public Intellectuals
Tagged administration, education, higher education, public intellectuals, spectacle, the university
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The Canadian University and the War Against Omar Khadr
Tyler J. Pollard interviews David L. Clark Omar Khadr is a Canadian citizen who spent the first ten years of his life moving back and forth between Canada and Pakistan. In 1996 at the age of ten, he moved with … Continue reading
Posted in Democracy, Education, Featured Articles, Past Feature, Public Intellectuals, Social Justice
Tagged democracy, education, higher education, Interview, justice, Omar Khadr, peace, public intellectuals, punishing state
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Social Science Pedagogy in the 21st Century: What Should We Be Doing?
by Robert Fitzgerald “Society is never redeemed without effort, struggle, and sacrifice.”[1] American progressive educator George Counts included this statement in the introduction of his most celebrated work titled Dare the School Build a New Social Order? While this is a … Continue reading
Posted in Democracy, Education, Sidebar
Tagged democracy, education, higher education, Robert Fitzgerald, Social Sciences, teachers
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Challenging a “Disposable Future,” Looking to a Politics of Possibility
In this interview conducted by Victoria Harper with Brad Evans and Henry A. Giroux, the public intellectuals discuss their forthcoming book, what they mean by “disposable futures” and “dystopian realism,” and how the spectacle of violence has contributed to a mistaken societal view that there is no future except a brutal one under neoliberal capitalism.
Posted in Democracy, Education, Featured Articles, Public Intellectuals
Tagged Brad Evans, disposable life, Henry Giroux, neoliberalism, power, victoria harper, violence
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Higher Education and the New Brutalism
by Henry A. Giroux, PIP Director Across the globe, a new historical conjuncture is emerging in which the attacks on higher education as a democratic institution and on dissident public voices in general – whether journalists, whistleblowers or academics – … Continue reading
Posted in Democracy, Education
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One Year After Closing, How Are Chicago’s Public Schools Now?
By Yana Kunichoff In the fall of 2012, the fear of school closings was one of the main catalysts for the historic Chicago Teachers Union strike, which saw tens of thousands of teachers walk off the job. The Chicago Public Schools district … Continue reading
Posted in Democracy, Education, Past Feature
Tagged chicago schools, truthout articles
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