Critical theory, critical culture, & postmodern humanism
In a nutshell: After a year of blogging, it turns out my blog is really about critical thinking, critical theory, critical pedagogy, and critical culture—not pedagogy per se. Hence, a new name for a new direction. This blog you are Continue reading Goodbye Pedagogishness, hello Criticality
In a nutshell: This essay embodies everything that Pedagogishness seeks to be about. Just read it. No commentary from me is needed. Henry A. Giroux | The War Against Teachers as Public Intellectuals in Dark TimesIf the United States is Continue reading Teachers as Public Intellectuals
In a nutshell: Despite earlier reports, a threat still remains to the return of Mexican-American Studies in Tucson. As I reported last month, the Tucson Unified School District (TUSD) on December 11 voted to approve a plan designed to satisfy Continue reading Update on Mexican-American Studies in Tucson
In a nutshell: December 22 will mark the tenth anniversary of the untimely death of Joe Strummer, singer, songwriter, guitarist, and leading force of the punk-rock band, The Clash. Here are links to some appreciations of Strummer, and to my Continue reading Joe Strummer, ten years gone
This article in today’s New York Times really fascinates me. It makes me wonder whether we are seeing the emergence of a new kind of politics in which intersectionality prevails over difference as the basis of identity-based political organizing and Continue reading The New Identity Politics?
In a nutshell: If literature is transformative, then as teachers of literature, what we are really trying to teach is the capacity for self-transformation. That’s why this business Gerald Graff has called “professing literature” is so damned hard, and so Continue reading Transformative Pedagogy
In a nutshell: Joe Strummer is why I teach. He exhorted (“Let fury have the hour!”); he provoked (“Anger can be power–Do you know that you can use it?”). That’s what we should do as teachers in front of the Continue reading Post-Punk Pedagogy
In a nutshell: What I care most about in the classroom is increasing students’ awareness of social justice, categories of privilege and oppression, the connection between knowledge and power, and their own potential as champions of freedom. Here I explore Continue reading Critical Pedagogy in My Classroom
In a nutshell: Young Mexican-American students in Tucson are under attack by right-wing, reactionary forces for trying to understand the matrix of oppression and privilege in which their lives are embedded. UPDATE: April 28, 2012 “When they see students asserting Continue reading Banned in Tucson: Critical Race Studies