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Bare Pedagogy and the Scourge of Neoliberalism

Rethinking Higher Education as a Democratic Public Sphere

Bibliographic Data

ID23316633
AuthorsH A Giroux (0000-0003-1637-9142, McMaster University, corresponding author)
Year2010
Volume74
Issue3
Pages184-196
Publication date2010-06-08
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Educational Forum (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0013-1725 • E-ISSN: 1938-8098
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00131725.2010.483897
OpenAlexW2050449374
LanguageEN
Citations received108
References cited1

A new form of bare pedagogy is emerging in higher education focused on market-driven competitiveness and even militaristic goal-setting, while critical pedagogy, with its emphasis on the hard work of critical analysis, moral judgments, and social responsibility (critical pedagogy that goes to the very heart of what it means to address real inequalities of power among faculty and administrators) withers. This occurs while at the same time critical pedagogy poses a series of important and often-ignored questions such as: What is the role of teachers and academics as public intellectuals? Whose interest does public and higher education serve? How might it be possible to understand and engage the diverse contexts in which education takes place? What is the role of education as a public good? How do we make knowledge meaningful in order to make it critical and transformative? How do we democratize governance?

Corporate governance · Critical pedagogy · Critical theory · Democracy · Democratic Education · Higher education · Management · Militarism · Neoliberalism (international relations) · Pedagogy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Public relations · Social change · Social Pedagogy · Social science · Sociology · Transformative learning · Critical and Liberation Pedagogy · Diverse Education Studies and Reforms · Law · Mentoring and Academic Development

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