Neoliberalism's War Against Teachers in Dark Times
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2408609 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Henry A Giroux |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 458-468 |
| Publication date | 2013-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Culture Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1532-7086 • E-ISSN: 1552-356X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1532708613503769 |
| OpenAlex | W2332989485 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 32 |
| References cited | 9 |
With schools becoming increasingly organized under the dictates of punitive and market cultures, the autonomy of educators is being constrained in such ways as to prevent them from carrying out pedagogies that might provide their students with a political consciousness and a sense of social responsibility. Teachers in the United States today are being forced to embody the role of 'technician' and to carry out harsh disciplinary policies, teaching-to-the-test mandates, and strict curricula that suffocate educators' abilities foster critical civic capacities in their students. In response to this crisis of pedagogical agency among educators, this article unravels the current neoliberal attacks being waged on teachers in today's culture of consumerism and violence. Taking up the media's brief celebration of teachers as defenders of youth after the fall 2012 shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut, the article addresses the heightened difficulties teachers face in safeguarding the futures of young people. Despite the short-lived praise of teachers following the shootings, educators today are greatly subject to attacks, waged by advocates for school privatization and market-based educated, against their role as public servants and critical intellectuals. In return, educators must fight against this anti-democratic configuration of education by reconceptualising themselves as engaged citizens and public intellectuals committed to making the pedagogical more political and the political more pedagogical to nurture the critical and civic capacities of the emergent generation
Agency (philosophy · Democracy · Neoliberalism (international relations · Pedagogy · Political science · Politics · Praise · Public relations · Social science · Sociology · Critical and Liberation Pedagogy · Diverse Education Studies and Reforms · Political theory and Gramsci · Psychology · Law · Social Psychology
Neoliberalism and early childhood
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The fast globalizing gendered construction of teacher education
Optimizing a critical juncture
Educator identity in a neoliberal context
Pedagogical documentation and the refusal of method
School leaders and teachers’ agency
Three professional ideals
Cornell Notes from Underground
Dialogues for equity
Resilience, advocacy and scholar-activism
Critical Inquiry as a Way to Break the Glass Between "Normal" Practices in the Chilean Public Academia and the Case of Color Latin American Migrant Students in Our Classrooms
Good teaching as a messy narrative of change within a policy ensemble of networks, superstructures and flows
Punching the clock
Toward Critical Pedagogies of the International? Student Resistance, Other-Regardedness, and Self-Formation in the Neoliberal University
The pandemic, race and the crisis of the neoliberal university
Reclaiming teacher intellectualism through and for inclusive education
Dwyl? Yolo
The Public Work of Identity Performance
The spirit of Aggieland
Data-Driven Performativity
Problematizing Accreditation for Teacher Education
What do you want your teachers to know? Using intergenerational reflections in education research
Exploring teachers’ perceptions of professional learning for reflection
Reclaiming agency
Cutting the Gordian knot of the education ‘crisis’ with teacher testing. A blunt instrument that crushes marginalised pre-service teachers
Transitory Voices
Choice, marketing and subjectivities
Neoliberalism in Higher Education
Neo-Liberalism in the Italian University
Come Dance With Fredrikke Me
| Unique citing works | 32 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,67 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2025 (12) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 32 |