Henry Giroux: “All education is a struggle over what kind of future you want for young people"

Education always plays a central role - whether in a visible or a veiled way - in any ideological project. For anyone backing the transformation of the world into a fairer, more caring and democratic place, education is key, but people who believe that market logics are fundamental for good social functioning also have their own educational project. All this, furthermore, is not only taking place in the classroom but permeating the whole of society. Taking advantage of his participation in the lecture series To Imagine the World, we talked with one of the founders of critical pedagogy, Henry Giroux (Providence, USA, 1943), who has spent his whole life researching these issues.
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  • @athnealerodney1979
    @athnealerodney19792 жыл бұрын

    "Power, at its worst, is invisible..." Giroux (2019). A very articulate expression of the power dynamics that permeates throughout modern societies....

  • @mindful3334

    @mindful3334

    Жыл бұрын

    This guy is a Critical Race Theorist! If you don't believe me then listen to his lectures. Don't be fooled by this toxic ideology.

  • @alexakos5239
    @alexakos52393 жыл бұрын

    Can we also have Greek subtitles please ??

  • @jolliethejoy
    @jolliethejoy6 ай бұрын

    He has a great way of explaining and I love it, glad my professor suggested this video to me I have a better understanding about it now

  • @DieNachtwanderer
    @DieNachtwanderer11 ай бұрын

    would not a student be required to master methods (mechanics of reading, reading comprehension, mathematics, writing - and master the advanced versions of method) in order to best be able to actualize any (any) given approach to identity and agency. bluntly, if I cannot read or reason or make fundamental numerate estimations of my environment, would that not be the greatest threat to preservation of intrinsic and subsequent identity? beginning with identity would seem a thing we do with animals - treat dog like dog. teach dog, even anthropomorphically, what dogs are...

  • @sweetpeasbackyardgarden1236
    @sweetpeasbackyardgarden12362 жыл бұрын

    Wow! Succinct expressions. "Young people have a lot of power. They are a potent political force."

  • @diegomarino8851
    @diegomarino88512 ай бұрын

    What is the exact second when the second half of the space cake hits? My bet 4:07

  • @trombone7
    @trombone73 жыл бұрын

    "An education that doesn't question how power is established and maintained is an education that, itself, protects power." - Adapted from the documentary "Lottery of Birth"

  • @frankvonfrauner
    @frankvonfrauner2 жыл бұрын

    You know he's smart because he's sitting in front of a blackboard with math on it.

  • @MuricaTurkey
    @MuricaTurkey10 ай бұрын

    "Struggle"? Hmm... where have I heard THAT before?! 🤔

  • @roberth7921
    @roberth79213 жыл бұрын

    Education is for empowering those who powerlessly stand at the end of the tunnel of education, namely the teachers.

  • @aditikulkarni2930
    @aditikulkarni29303 жыл бұрын

    WOW !

  • @elprofejuan3897
    @elprofejuan38973 жыл бұрын

    ¿Can I translate it into spanish and upload it into my youtube channel? Does the video have copyrights??

  • @yesica7080

    @yesica7080

    3 жыл бұрын

    :) do it for name of Education! y tus estudiantes

  • @yamiladdi

    @yamiladdi

    3 жыл бұрын

    Did you end it up doing it? if you have it please share it?

  • @danvykoukal5310

    @danvykoukal5310

    3 жыл бұрын

    Hi! Same thoughts here - but to Czech. Did you find out anything about the copyrights? Thanks!

  • @yogi2436
    @yogi24362 жыл бұрын

    The next step for enlightenment is for people to be able to think their way out of the mess created by Giroux and thinkers like him.

  • @123compaq123

    @123compaq123

    9 ай бұрын

    explain

  • @user-bl7oe2md4p

    @user-bl7oe2md4p

    8 ай бұрын

    I think that what he is saying is that what literacy was to the humanist rational liberalism of the enlightenment is education on the ways and sharpening our intellectual skills to be able to recognize and correctly interpret the agendas behind the many forms of social and cultural indoctrination that we as a population are constantly being subjected to, the collective consciousness in which we are immersed and enveloped by. Which is invisible to perceive because it is the implicit assumptions and mental categories that we use to construct and understand reality (whether that reality is concrete or conceptual)itself. Much like water is invisible to a fish because it is so omnipresent that it recedes into an invisible background space in which everything else happens. The parallel to this is the human cultural and collective mental space. I think that what this guy is trying to explain is our processes of mind which are normally unconscious and hidden or invisible to ourselves. Might make some people unfamiliar with deep introspection self awareness and reflection a little uncomfortable. Other than that a piece of cake, basic post post modern common sense really.

  • @yogi2436

    @yogi2436

    8 ай бұрын

    @@123compaq123 For me ,the limitaion of Giroux and much of left-wing thinkers is they are great on criticising but inadequte when it comes to imagining a world or future that honours all that is wonderful about human history and humanity, In their rush to blindly destroy everything, in pure avant-garde fashion, they fail to see the many true fountains and sources of a life well-ived. Thus their imagined futures are so often bleak and harsh because they have ignored and destroyed many great aspects of human life and culture in the quest of their limited political objectives.

  • @eltanguero9426

    @eltanguero9426

    2 ай бұрын

    Concuerdo, mucha palabrería poca utilidad práctica; estos pensadores están lejos de la realidad y esa desconexion provoca un grande de complejidad mayor en sus teorías para intentar constatarlas.

  • @treyb3693
    @treyb36932 жыл бұрын

    Methods? What if the students select or create their own methods? What about methods in professional ethics? Is it not a method to gain the attention of the learners first before engagement in some learning exercise? Perhaps what is meant by the professor is that the qualitative aspects are overlooked oftentimes by learning and applying methodologies.

  • @zakyjaafar3946

    @zakyjaafar3946

    2 жыл бұрын

    These days, with obe and blooms taxonomy etc, teaching methods are dictated by comprehensive technical manuals with which anybody can perform the act of educating mindlessly.

  • @AlistairAVogan

    @AlistairAVogan

    3 ай бұрын

    @@zakyjaafar3946 Incorrect. Teaching methods are certainly not dictated by comprehensive technical manuals.

  • @UIA81
    @UIA814 жыл бұрын

    Foucauldian poetry

  • @damianbylightning6823

    @damianbylightning6823

    4 жыл бұрын

    Translated into English: A load of dangerous nonsense, largely based on the correct observations of early modernist Thomas Hobbes. Foucault added incompatible and dense German bits to his Hobbesian 'philosophy' - and morons called him a genius. Foucault was not a postmodernist, he is more correctly described as a vulgar/Hobbesian modernist with German-ish additions. Not very catchy though. 'Foucauldian poetry' essentially means whatever you want it to mean. This is what Foucault's disciples did when they struggled to make Foucault's wretched ideas practicable. If you, further, hear the word 'critical' is is usually an indication that the author of the phrase has no idea how to criticise anything outside of a series of stitched together cliches from post-Marxist mumbo-jumbo.

  • @MACNAOIS

    @MACNAOIS

    2 жыл бұрын

    Slightly less good than Vogon poetry.

  • @rizzz4904
    @rizzz49044 жыл бұрын

    well said great man

  • @marscruz

    @marscruz

    4 жыл бұрын

    He has plenty of criticism but no plan. Anyone can do this. Sounds like an unhappy ex-wife.

  • @triviajjunie9896

    @triviajjunie9896

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@marscruz sounds like you're a piece of misogynistic. it happens a lot, we have ideologies against things but we don't know how to start or how to do it. people in power don't let you change things either, i don't see you either doing something, so instead of criticizing someone support ideas and start doing things

  • @marscruz

    @marscruz

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@triviajjunie9896 I've been "doing things" for well over 50 years and have been quite successful. Excuse me if I see others differently than you do. This is actually quite common as you may find out as you mature.

  • @pww7940
    @pww79402 жыл бұрын

    By externalizing and projecting evil into unjust social structures and prophesying a paradise-like utopia via apocalyptic revolution, Marxism evades the central issue that both religion and great art boldly confront: evil is rooted in the human heart. - Camille Paglia

  • @KoDi82

    @KoDi82

    Жыл бұрын

    @@pashadyne it’s all still very hegelian, centering around the concept of “Aufheben,” which he obsessed over.

  • @__loafy__
    @__loafy__2 жыл бұрын

    Imagine dyeing your hair every day when you're 80 years old.

  • @miriammedina8858
    @miriammedina88584 жыл бұрын

    Excelente!

  • @PabloFC1975
    @PabloFC19752 жыл бұрын

    ¿Qué quiere decir cuando habla de "agency", palabra que menciona constantemente? Es para un trabajo práctico en el instituto... gracias!!

  • @drRGCRock

    @drRGCRock

    2 жыл бұрын

    Su pregunta es buena, yo lo tomaría como "potencial"....

  • @TheLegoryan
    @TheLegoryan Жыл бұрын

    So much hate in the comments yet a serious lack of legitimate criticism

  • @majorhonest8745
    @majorhonest87454 жыл бұрын

    I like to his idea

  • @sebolddaniel
    @sebolddaniel2 жыл бұрын

    The multiculturalism movement in the universities is tied to economics. I say that because at its inception it was not all inclusive. LGBT was not part of it initially.

  • @abdirahmanhassan121
    @abdirahmanhassan1213 жыл бұрын

    Thank you, it was very insightful

  • @kylanoble8669
    @kylanoble86692 жыл бұрын

    If you enjoy what he is saying, I suggest also looking at Paulo Freire. I like Giroux's the best so far, but they both have such interesting and revolutionary takes on the educational system.

  • @yogi2436

    @yogi2436

    2 жыл бұрын

    Freire is much better in my opinion. He is/was much more connected with humanity and reality.

  • @jawary8474
    @jawary84743 жыл бұрын

    So spot on

  • @harryfloros8796
    @harryfloros87962 жыл бұрын

    Henry Armand Giroux is an American-Canadian scholar and cultural critic. One of the founding theorists of critical pedagogy in the United States, he is best known for his pioneering work in public pedagogy, cultural studies, youth studies, higher education, media studies, and critical theory. So why is he spouting his word salad standing next to a blackboard of advanced applied mathematics? That lower case h with a bar across it is Planck’s constant divided by 2π. Now why would M. Giroux deliver his sermon stand next to such material in such dramatic chiaroscuro lighting, like some worthy from a Rembrandt painting? Does M Giroux have any understanding of quantum physics beyond his conviction that it’s a product of white supremacist thought or that it might help to make his i-phone go?

  • @pesquer2211
    @pesquer22112 жыл бұрын

    Very nice to see this professor getting pushback for his apparently progressive but really regressive ideas

  • @pablorazdrokin2092
    @pablorazdrokin2092 Жыл бұрын

    Brillante !!!

  • @paulelago9453
    @paulelago94532 жыл бұрын

    Makes some good points. But he's consumed by Anti-capitalism. He doesn't sound like someone that speaks for democracy but rather wants power concentrated in those that share his ideology.

  • @Recondite101

    @Recondite101

    2 жыл бұрын

    Anti-capitalism doesn't necessarily always equal anti-democracy. Especially when you consider how anti-democratic capitalism really is

  • @muhammaduwaisemf9632

    @muhammaduwaisemf9632

    Жыл бұрын

    You should know democracy a bit more.

  • @paulelago9453

    @paulelago9453

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Recondite101 I didn’t say that.

  • @TheLegoryan

    @TheLegoryan

    Жыл бұрын

    Why should the market be the dominant force in society, capitalism demands it

  • @dwwolf4636

    @dwwolf4636

    Ай бұрын

    Their Democracy is where everyone is Utterly Free (and the same i.e. Communism ). Mainly Free of objective reality and constraints whereby Mankind is uplifted to be like a God. Ofcourse Marxist ( Hegelian ) gospel is that we live in a poor Reflection/Simulacrum of the Real Reality and that is what limits us. Thus we Ascend by Breaking stuff and sifting Gold Nuggets of Truth from the Ashes to get Closer to the Real. Ofcourse when you break stuff our objective ( read normal ) reality comes back to bite them in the arse and bad things happen. Ofcourse that's never Real Communism/Socialism/Critical Theory/Critical Pedagogy because that's how the they roll. They just learned a bit more Truth. Never mind the ~150million deaths caused by Hegelian faiths in the 20th century. Yes, if you think that sounds like a Cult.....that's because it is. It is no wonder that US education is getting abysmal results. They really think everything is part of an invisibile vast conspiracy to make more of itself. Thus objective literacy is not the goal. The goal is the cultivate *their* poltical literacy ( i.e. a Marxist lens over everything ). And they're doing it. The goal is to make students critical of everything not Marxist. Reading and math be damned, those are only tools to oppress you and keep your from Their Freedom ( i.e. Communism). You can spot their literature by some Key Words. Transformation ( I.e. break whats there and that's the Alchemy bit where they find "Truth"), New Possibilites (Never articulated or planned, Communism has no idea of how their Utopia looks and thus cannot know what it wants ) but always achieved by handing over power to their Soviets....er Councils of Experts and Stakeholders. Equity ( Communism ). Inclusion; of everything Marxist. They LOVE the trans stuff, as it frees people, seemingly, from objective reality.

  • @DieNachtwanderer
    @DieNachtwanderer11 ай бұрын

    ...further, the object of concern (the disenfranchised folks) are left with an odd choice: remain under the "power" of one called master (essentially, the white person as cultural, fascist hegemon as described in vid) OR hew to an alternate power that has the exact same cultural characteristics (not least by phenotype as culture in American terms), the difference in ideology being insignificant given their supreme control of either end of the spectrum. in broken english: there are no "powerless" thinkers offering this ideology on behalf of themselves. how is one to judge, especially in the direct scheme stated: the power structure. it looks different to him, but is essentially, empirically, and epistemologically the same doggone person in the eyes of the folks being urged to forsake method for identity.

  • @willmickel71
    @willmickel714 жыл бұрын

    It was once the role of educators to teach people how to think not what to think. Professors like this take the opposite view.

  • @mindful3334

    @mindful3334

    Жыл бұрын

    I do believe that teaching student's how to think is what we need to do. But his method on how to think is a dangerous one. Do know that this guy is a Critical Race Theorist, Marxist and a student of Paulo Freire. If you don't believe me then you can look it up...

  • @willmickel71

    @willmickel71

    Жыл бұрын

    @@mindful3334 The way “How” is used is referring to education skills not what opinions or philosophies one must hold.

  • @mindful3334

    @mindful3334

    Жыл бұрын

    @@willmickel71 Yes, we're saying the same thing here. Many educators will agree that indoctrination isn't education. But in the event that you actually take this guy up on his views then do know that that he's a Critical Race Theorist, Marxist and a student of Paulo Freire. Are you aware of these toxic and dangerous ideologies?

  • @KoDi82

    @KoDi82

    Жыл бұрын

    @@willmickel71 oh you sweet summer child. They are teaching kids HOW to think LIKE Critical Marxists, all because of the Critical Pedagogy Giroux brought and adapted from Freire into US academia. Read “The Critical Turn in Education” by Isaac Gottesman

  • @alexsteinberg3610

    @alexsteinberg3610

    Ай бұрын

    This is a fundamental misunderstanding of what he is arguing for. He is arguing for young people to look at the world around them, the world they live in, and understand and critique it. To not accept the so-called neutral stories created to maintain status quo.

  • @maxinevandate6366
    @maxinevandate63662 жыл бұрын

    OMgoodness! I agree about the methods, but you, Henry, are promoting a false consciousness

  • @dstorm7752
    @dstorm77522 жыл бұрын

    The word "critical" in the groves of academe tends to mean "pro-leftist"

  • @kyleolin3566

    @kyleolin3566

    Жыл бұрын

    The word “critical” is tied to “critical consciousness raising” which essentially means that the world is made up of victims and oppressors and that the victims are intellectually and morally superior due to their being in the oppressors world as well as their own. Aka “double consciousness”. That is why Marxists want to “centre” everything on the margins, including perverts and deviants.

  • @CatAtomic99
    @CatAtomic992 жыл бұрын

    "Capitalism is the antithesis of democracy", if your definition of "democracy" is communism. "Liberation" always means communism with these people. Democracy means communism. It's like they're speaking their own little coded language.

  • @Recondite101

    @Recondite101

    2 жыл бұрын

    Yes. You can't have democracy without socialism

  • @CornerTalker

    @CornerTalker

    2 жыл бұрын

    Stop talking about "capitalism" and start talking about "free market." They are using the term capitalism when they actually mean ""crony capitalism" - government in bed with business. And isn't that actually what socialism is? People talk about a separation of church and state - I want to see a separation of business and state: very limited government control; no taxpayer bailout.

  • @carlosenriquegonzalez-isla6523
    @carlosenriquegonzalez-isla65239 ай бұрын

    Thanks 🙏 a lot. Esto lo deberían de ver y, mas importante, entender los p3ndejos que están atacando la Nueva Escuela Mexicana.

  • @elizabethh257
    @elizabethh257 Жыл бұрын

    Stay Golden pony boy.

  • @nahnan2278
    @nahnan22783 жыл бұрын

    big brain time

  • @zo1dberg
    @zo1dberg2 жыл бұрын

    It's great that this guy is getting called out for his Critical Pedagogy. Now that we have identified what this guy is doing to children (turning them in to hateful activists), we can now take action to stop him.

  • @LauraGonzalez-lk1tr
    @LauraGonzalez-lk1tr Жыл бұрын

    Me encantó!

  • @phillip53
    @phillip53 Жыл бұрын

    Economic rights... Sounds like the right to the fruits of another's labor.

  • @pww7940
    @pww79402 жыл бұрын

    "An education that doesn't question how power is established and maintained is an education that, itself, protects power." An education that focuses on power and how it is established and maintained is one that loses sight of everything else and incites resentment and tribalism. That type of education is what lead to the greatest atrocities of the last century.

  • @yogi2436

    @yogi2436

    2 жыл бұрын

    You need to start thinking your way out of the hole that has been dug for you.

  • @MW-ic7lr
    @MW-ic7lr Жыл бұрын

    Is he laughing at his own BS? This guy sounds profound because he uses big buzz words and doesnt stfu and throws in a few moralistic ideas to boot. I wouldnt trust this guy to lead anything.

  • @TheVoluntariast
    @TheVoluntariast16 күн бұрын

    In his crusade against "capitalism," he misses the mark by failing to distinguish between legitimate market economies and corrupt crony capitalism. His blanket condemnation of capitalism as inherently oppressive overlooks the nuances of economic systems and stifles meaningful discourse about real-world solutions. Does he not know the difference?

  • @gordonsulc8319
    @gordonsulc8319 Жыл бұрын

    This guy is the reason American children can't read, write, and do math at grade level. He destroyed them.

  • @malihaasad6835

    @malihaasad6835

    Жыл бұрын

    How please can you elaborate?

  • @gordonsulc8319

    @gordonsulc8319

    Жыл бұрын

    @@malihaasad6835 he introduced Friere's unscientific and outright religious pedagogical theories into education and worked hard to get religious nutjobs into staff in colleges of education. The only scientific study of Friere's methods in teaching resulted in students entering an emotional catastrophic state in which they were unwilling and unable to learn. According to Friere, the purpose of an education is to achieve a Marxist political consciousness.

  • @dwwolf4636

    @dwwolf4636

    Ай бұрын

    @@malihaasad6835 By stealing education time by using Math, Literacy and other subjects as Generative vessels. I.e. All texts and examples will slant negative of current society. During math time an example was given about %s linking wealth and skin color fron Census date. Heavily implying that skin color is the determinant for population level outcomes. Furthermore, discussion will automatically be held about the fairness of that implied reality. The Higher the age group the more it explicitly slants towards the underlying assumption being that Everything we do ( even basic reading and math skills ) is specifically done to oppress the less privileged. And that any outcome that is different from the privileged group ( i.e. Whites, White straight men etc.) is caused by these ever more invisible secret power plays. Ofcourse their remedy is give power to their Soviets.....errr... Councils of Experts and Stakeholders as those people have "special" ways of Knowing Real Reality. Thus they are better at Knowing the Real than those poor benighted fools who prattle on about Science, Math and Literacy which are just tools to oppress everyone. Distinctly Cultish Behavior, obviously.

  • @mervinsingh3339
    @mervinsingh33392 жыл бұрын

    Twitter is not literacy? ummm it's literally a form of literacy.

  • @beetlegin
    @beetlegin3 жыл бұрын

    Yeah - politicising education has always worked out really well hasn't it. Teaching basic skills can be neutral, what he's arguing for is indoctrination, but that's okay because all the 'approved' educators will believe as he does in this brave new world as it transitions from the ancien regime to the coming utopia - 'a time of great anxiety but also great possibility' - as he and other revolutionaries have observed. And the claim that "The left have failed because they believed that the most important structures of domination are entirely economic, and not those those elements that trade in beliefs, persuasion, pedagogy, changing consciousness (whatever the fuck that is) and modes of identitication" is an outright lie. They left have been focused on nothing else for at least sixty years, the literature on all this is immense. Always facinating how blind ideologues are to their own prejudicies, assumptions and bigotries. Frankly, people like this scare the shit out of me, and if they don't have the same effect on you then you haven't been paying attention.

  • @melodieslaughter7704

    @melodieslaughter7704

    3 жыл бұрын

    There's no such thing as a "neutral" education, so I'm afraid that I don't know what you mean when you say that others have "politicized" it. What the classroom should be is an environment where the teacher objectively plays "devil's advocate" for every single perspective. That's how you get kids to think.

  • @paulelago9453

    @paulelago9453

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@melodieslaughter7704 There isn't enough time on earth to teach every single perspective, and some ideas have already been encountered and resolved. We don't have to debate whether the earth is flat or not. or if gravity exists or if murder is morally right/wrong. Liberal education teaches a specific set of values and universally accepted knowledge, but also encourages criticism, that's what neutrality means. What Marxist like him suggest is indoctrination and waging political warfare in the minds of children, he's evil.

  • @gonzatamame
    @gonzatamame2 жыл бұрын

    My new god

  • @juliafox52
    @juliafox523 жыл бұрын

    The professor makes some good points, but his solutions are evil. He is calling for the Red Guard. Untold millions died under this way of thinking. He shouldn't be allowed anywhere near children OR educators. Must we repeat the past or can we not learn from it?!

  • @paulelago9453

    @paulelago9453

    2 жыл бұрын

    True.

  • @Recondite101

    @Recondite101

    2 жыл бұрын

    Socialism is when bad

  • @tonymorelli1571
    @tonymorelli15712 жыл бұрын

    Get off the backs of children and grow up yourself.

  • @pww7940
    @pww79402 жыл бұрын

    "pedagogies of oppression" what an absolute clown

  • @Lakridza67
    @Lakridza67 Жыл бұрын

    I love this man with all my soul! 🫶🏻