Education and popular culture

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Published: Aug 7, 2015
DOI: https://doi.org/10.12681/sas.862
Henry A. Giroux
McMaster University
Abstract
In this paper it is posited that critical pedagogy should be implemented in the context of a more complete understanding of the political dimension of popular culture. Both the conservative and the radical approaches to this culture are analyzed and borrowing arguments from Gramsci but also from Foucault, proposals are laid down for its redefinition as a field of struggle and dominance. The ending argument is that the pedagogue, if he pursues a pedagogy that requires some edification of knowledge and pleasures (inextricable in daily student life), is obliged to treat popular culture and social difference as the field in which he must meet his students in a critical and empowering pedagogical meeting.
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