Schooling and the Struggle for Public Life: Democracy's Promise and Education's Challenge (Second edition)

Henry Giroux. (2005). Schooling and the Struggle for Public Life: Democracy's Promise and Education's Challenge (Second edition). Paradigm Publishers, Boulder, CO. 254 pages. ISBN: 15945-10350 (paperback). First edition published University of Minnesota Press 1988, Routledge Press 1989, and La Escuela Y La Lucha Por La Ciudadania Siglo Veintiuno Editore 1993 Mexico)

Jonathan Segol, doctoral candidate, Faculty of Education, University of Ottawa

Over the last twenty-five years, Henry Giroux has written over twenty books about education and about cultural studies. The body of his work-particularly over the last 12-15 years-has helped to bring the discourses of critical pedagogy …