From expert Henry Giroux who has been theorises pedagogy as a practical, moral and cultural practice. Drawing upon critical discourses that extend from John Dewey to Paulo Freire, Giroux opens by discussing the crucial role of pedagogy in schools before extending the notion to the educational force of the wider culture.
Some of the authors key focuses are on analysing the increasingly empirical orientation of teaching and the culture of positivism, as well as examining the major economic, social and political forces that eventually undermine democratic schooling.
A comprehensive study into the broad and hard to pin down field of pedagogy, that to its credit explores the legacy of Paulo Freire and also challenges some of his notions.
