Includes bibliographical references and index.

Prologue: Rethinking Resistance and Freedom in the Age of Authoritarianism -- Foreword / Paulo Freire -- Preface / Stanley Aronowitz -- Introduction: Educated Hope, Public Pedagogy, and the Politics of Resistance -- Section 1. Theory and Critical Discourse -- Critical Theory and Educational Practice -- Schooling and the Politics of the Hidden Curriculum -- Reproduction, Resistance, and Accommodation in the Schooling Process -- Section 2. Resistance and Critical Pedagogy -- Ideology, Culture, and Schooling -- Critical Theory and Rationality in Citizenship Education -- Literacy, Ideology, and the Politics of Schooling -- Conclusion: Toward a New Public Sphere.

"Reissued with a new introduction from Henry A. Giroux, this classic work provides theoretical and political tools for addressing how pedagogy, knowledge, resistance, and power can be analyzed within and across a variety of cultural spheres, including but not limited to the schools. This edition includes four new chapters covering critical pedagogy and resistance, cultural politics and public intellectuals, challenging gangster capitalism and the lies and violence of fascist politics. These new chapters show how the calls for radical social change made in the previous edition are needed now more than ever in the struggle against fascism, authoritarianism, racism and other systems of oppression that are still built into society and our education systems. The book includes a foreword by Paulo Freire and a preface by Stanley Aronowitz"-- Page 4 of cover.