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The Language of Neoliberal Education
An Interviw with Henry Giroux
Mitja Sardoč
Henry A. Giroux currently holds the McMaster University Chair
for Scholarship in the Public Interest in the English and Cultural
Studies Department and the Paulo Freire Distinguished Scholar
Professorship in Critical Pedagogy. In 2002, he was named as one of
the top fifty educational thinkers of the modern period in Fifty Modern
Thinkers on Education: From Piaget to the Present as part of Routledge’s
Key Guides Publication Series. In 2007, he was named by the Toronto
Star as one of the “12 Canadians Changing the Way We Think”. In 2005,
he received an honorary doctorate from Memorial University in Canada.
He is on the editorial and advisory boards of numerous national and inter-
national scholarly journals, and he has served as the editor or co-editor of
four scholarly book series. He co-edited a series on education and cultural
studies with Paulo Freire for a decade. He is a regular contributor to a num-
ber of online journals including Truthout, Truthdig, and CounterPunch.
He has published in many journals including Social Text, Third Text,
Cultural Studies, Harvard Educational Review, Theory, Culture, & Society
and Monthly Review. He is on the Board of Directors for Truthout. His
books are translated into many languages. His most recent books include:
Neoliberalism’s War on Higher Education (Haymarket 2014), The Violence
of Organized Forgetting (City Lights 2014), Dangerous Thinking in the Age
of the New Authoritarianism (Routledge, 2015), America’s Addiction to
Terrorism (Monthly Review Press, 2016), America at War with Itself (City
Lights, 2017), The Public in Peril (Routledge, 2018), American Nightmare:
Facing the Challenge of Fascism (City Lights, 2018), and the forthcoming
The Terror of the Unforeseen (Los Angeles Review of Books, 2019). His
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An Interviw with Henry Giroux
Mitja Sardoč
Henry A. Giroux currently holds the McMaster University Chair
for Scholarship in the Public Interest in the English and Cultural
Studies Department and the Paulo Freire Distinguished Scholar
Professorship in Critical Pedagogy. In 2002, he was named as one of
the top fifty educational thinkers of the modern period in Fifty Modern
Thinkers on Education: From Piaget to the Present as part of Routledge’s
Key Guides Publication Series. In 2007, he was named by the Toronto
Star as one of the “12 Canadians Changing the Way We Think”. In 2005,
he received an honorary doctorate from Memorial University in Canada.
He is on the editorial and advisory boards of numerous national and inter-
national scholarly journals, and he has served as the editor or co-editor of
four scholarly book series. He co-edited a series on education and cultural
studies with Paulo Freire for a decade. He is a regular contributor to a num-
ber of online journals including Truthout, Truthdig, and CounterPunch.
He has published in many journals including Social Text, Third Text,
Cultural Studies, Harvard Educational Review, Theory, Culture, & Society
and Monthly Review. He is on the Board of Directors for Truthout. His
books are translated into many languages. His most recent books include:
Neoliberalism’s War on Higher Education (Haymarket 2014), The Violence
of Organized Forgetting (City Lights 2014), Dangerous Thinking in the Age
of the New Authoritarianism (Routledge, 2015), America’s Addiction to
Terrorism (Monthly Review Press, 2016), America at War with Itself (City
Lights, 2017), The Public in Peril (Routledge, 2018), American Nightmare:
Facing the Challenge of Fascism (City Lights, 2018), and the forthcoming
The Terror of the Unforeseen (Los Angeles Review of Books, 2019). His
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