Henry Giroux Explained

Henry Giroux
Birth Name:Henry Armand Giroux
Birth Date:September 18, 1943
Birth Place:Providence, Rhode Island, US
Thesis Title:Themes in Modern European History
Thesis Year:1977

Henry Armand Giroux (born September 19, 1943) 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. In 2002, Keith Morrison wrote about Giroux as among the top fifty influential figures in 20th-century educational discourse.

A high-school social studies teacher in Barrington, Rhode Island, for six years,[1] Giroux has held positions at Boston University, Miami University, and Pennsylvania State University. In 2004, Giroux began serving as the Global TV Network Chair in Communication at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario.

Early life and education

Henry Giroux was born on September 18, 1943, in Providence, Rhode Island, the son of Alice (Waldron) and Armand Giroux.[2] Giroux completed a Master of Arts degree in history at Appalachian State University in 1968. After teaching high-school social studies in Barrington, Rhode Island, for six years, Giroux earned a Doctor of Arts degree in history at Carnegie Mellon University in 1977.

Career

Giroux's first position as an Assistant Professor was in education at Boston University, which he held for the next six years until he was denied tenure. Following that, he became an education professor and scholar in residence at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. While there he also served as the founding Director of the Center for Education and Cultural Studies.[3]

In 1992, he began a 12-year position in the Waterbury Chair Professorship at Pennsylvania State University, also serving as the Director of the Waterbury Forum in Education and Cultural Studies.[4] In 2004 Giroux became the Global Television Network Chair in Communication at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario.[5] [6] In July 2014, he was named to the McMaster University Chair for Scholarship in the Public Interest. He is the Director of the McMaster Centre for Research in the Public Interest. He lives in Hamilton, Ontario, where he currently is a chaired professor for Scholarship in the Public Interest at McMaster University. He is married to Ourania Filippakou.

Accomplishments

While at Miami University, Giroux was named as a Distinguished Scholar. For 1987–1988 he won the Visiting Distinguished Professor Award at the University of Missouri–Kansas City. Between 1992 and 2004, he held the Waterbury Chair Professorship at Penn State University. In 1995, he was awarded the Visiting Asa Knowles Chair Professorship by Northeastern University and he won a Tokyo Metropolitan University Fellowship for Research.

In 1998, Giroux was selected to the Laureate chapter of Kappa Delta Phi. in 1998 and 1999, he was awarded a Distinguished Visiting Lectureship in art education at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. For May–June 2000 he was the winner of a Getty Research Institute Visiting Scholar Award. In 2001, he was selected as a Hooker Distinguished Visiting Professor at McMaster University.

In 2002 Giroux 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 2001 he won the James L. Kinneavy Award for the most outstanding article published in JAC in 2001, which was presented by the Association of Teachers of Advanced Composition at the Conference on College Composition and Communication held in Chicago in March 2002. For 2002 he was named by Oxford University to deliver the Herbert Spencer Lecture.

For 2003 Giroux was selected as the Barstow Visiting Scholar at Saginaw Valley State University. In 2005, he was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Letters by Memorial University of Newfoundland.[7]

The University in Chains was named by the American Educational Studies Association as the recipient of the AESA Critics' Book Choice Award for 2008. He was named by the Toronto Star in 2012 as one of the top 12 Canadians Changing the Way We Think.[8] Education and the Crisis of Public Values: Challenging the Assault on Teachers, Students, & Public Education was awarded a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title and has received the Annual O. L. Davis, Jr. Outstanding Book Award from the AATC (American Association for Teaching and Curriculum) and the AESA (American Educational Studies Association) Critics Choice Award 2012.

In 2015 he was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters degree from Chapman University in California. He is a winner of a Lifetime Achievement Award granted by the AERA. In 2015 he won two other major awards from Chapman University: the "Changing the World Award" and "The Paulo Freire Democratic Project Social Justice Award." Also during 2015, Giroux was honored with a Distinguished Alumni Award from Appalachian State University. In 2017 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of the West of Scotland. In 2019 he received an AERA Fellows Award and the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication's Professional Freedom and Responsibility Award. In 2021 he received a Doctor Honoris Causa from the Center for Latin American Studies in Education Inclusive (CELEI). In 2023, he was awarded an Honorary Deanship at Woxsen University, India.

For many years Giroux was co-Editor-in-chief of the Review of Education, Pedagogy and Cultural Studies, published by Taylor and Francis.[9]

Reception

Giroux was the first to use the phrase critical pedagogy, according to Curry Malott, and helped inaugurate the "critical turn in education". In Leaders in Critical Pedagogy, he is identified as one of the "first wave" of critical pedagogues.

His work has been critiqued on numerous fronts, from feminists like Patti Lather and Elizabeth Ellsworth and race scholars.

Publications

1980s

1990s

2000s

2010s

2020s

See also

References

Bibliography

Further reading

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Notes and References

  1. H. Giroux, "The Kids Aren't Alright: Youth Pedagogy and Cultural Studies" in Fugitive Cultures. http://www.henryagiroux.com/bio.html Retrieved 21/09/08.
  2. Web site: Henry Giroux . 2015-03-22 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150308013340/http://www.21stcenturyschools.com/Henry_Giroux.htm . March 8, 2015 .
  3. Web site: Provenzo . Eugene F. Jr. . Eugene F. Provenzo . Henry Giroux . Contemporary Educational Thought . University of Miami . https://web.archive.org/web/20160304030332/http://www.education.miami.edu/ep/contemporaryed/Henry_Giroux/henry_giroux.html . March 4, 2016 . October 6, 2021.
  4. Web site: Henry A. Giroux . Critical Voices . Dublin . Arts Council . October 6, 2021.
  5. Web site: May 27, 2004 . McMaster Attracts Widely Acclaimed U.S. Scholar Henry Giroux . Hamilton, Ontario . McMaster University . October 6, 2021.
  6. News: Buac . Jenny . June 21, 2004 . McMaster University Snags Famous Theory Professor . e.Peak . Burnaby, British Columbia . Canadian University Press . https://web.archive.org/web/20070625165707/http://www.peak.sfu.ca/the-peak/2004-2/issue8/ne-giroux.html . June 25, 2007 . August 6, 2007.
  7. Fogg . Piper . May 28, 2004 . McMaster U. Woos Education Scholar with Job for His Wife . The Chronicle of Higher Education . Washington . A8.
  8. News: Ward . Olivia . January 27, 2012 . 12 Canadians Changing the Way We Think . Toronto Star.
  9. Web site: Review of Education, Pedagogy and Cultural Studies . Taylor and Francis . https://web.archive.org/web/20070930220803/http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/journal.asp?issn=1071-4413&linktype=5 . September 30, 2007 . July 21, 2007.

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