Customer Review: I read this book when I first read this book about five years after I started teaching. By then I was able to see just what Giroux is getting at in this book: teachers in this country are mainly trained to be technicians about their subjects rather than intellectuals. In other words, most... more info
Customer Review: I have a number of advanced degrees and am generally considered to be intelligent and extremely well read. This point is relevant only in so far as the fact that I could not get past chapter 2 of this book makes me wonder just what audience this author intended the work for. I found the ideas... more info
Customer Review: I have trouble reading this book in large chunks because virtually every paragraph leaves me mystified and asking unanswered questions. Thus, I propose to make comments periodically, and hopefully a full review will emerge at the end of the process. First off, I find the very idea of... more info
Customer Review: Even though we as American parents would be willing to blow the whistle on baby sitters who physically and emotionally harm our children, we have done nothing short of brushing the surface when it comes to pulling the plug on the most dangerous baby sitter of all-popular media. Please read this... more info
Customer Review: Giroux follows his typical train of thought in this criticism of the role of securitized discourse and fear in shaping American domestic and foreign policy. This time he focuses on how culture (the media, etc.) affects the educational spheres of America, most specifically its effects on children and... more info
Customer Review: After the first (and only truly substantive chapter), I would have given this work 4 stars; having (with difficulty) swallowed the next three chapters, I had to revise this rating down to 2 stars. In the first part of the book, Giroux makes a compelling argument that institutionalized forms of... more info
