Henry Giroux

learners must understand why they are not being represented and realize it is at not a fault of their own. They must understand that historically museums are exclusionary systems that make value judgments about whose values and cultures are to be celebrated and sustained (Lindauer, 2007). It also must be understood that no museum or institution is apolitical, all museums and exhibitions negotiate issues of social power, the same power that sustains other ways of oppressing people through inequality, and that knowledge is cultural capital with an uneven distribution (Lindauer, 2007). It is through techniques of critical pedagogy that the expanse between theories of oppression, education, and the wider social lives of individuals can be crossed (Giroux). Exhibition Design To create a space of identity cultivation, critical pedagogy must not remain a theory, but must be used in practical ways, like designing exhibitions. One way to develop exhibitions that can deal with these issues of power an inequality that is widely accepted in the field, is to invite members of these excluded or under represented groups to be engaged in the decision making process (Lindauer, 2007, Pieterse, 1997, Emdin, Macdonald). Engaging people from multiple under represented groups will help to undermine the pervasive stereotypes and misunderstandings often represented in museums and history in general and serve to disrupt the white European focus of many institutions. (Lindauer, 2007). In…

About Henry Giroux: Henry Giroux is a well known critical pedagogy scholar, in 2014 he was the holder of the McMaster University Chair for Scholarship in the Public Interest in the English and Cultural Studies Department. Giroux was born on the 18th of September in 1943 and received his doctorate degree from Carnegie-Mellon University in 1977. He is widely known for writing and researching about pedagogy, youth studies, media studies, critical theory, cultural studies, and higher education.…

Henry Ford is an example of how economic and social policies of successive Republic Governments contributed to a world of inequality. Henry Ford Henry Ford the genius behind the successful assembly line mass production of products; in his case; the motor car. Born in Dearborn Michigan in 1893 into a farming family. Henry was educated at the local school. At the age of sixteen he became a machinist apprentice. Henry was raised as an Episcopalian. He had very strong views, he believed in…

Exploitation Leading to a Worse Tomorrow A new president is elected every four years to run our nation, represent the country, and uphold the Constitution of the United States. The President of the United States acts as the most powerful man in the world and therefore, we must place our trust into his hands. When the society discovers that their elected president becomes untrustworthy and secretive , a bond is broken. The Watergate Scandal of Richard Nixon and the most notorious political…

“Ever’body’s askin’ that. What we comin’ to? Seems to me we don’t never come to nothin’. Always on the way. Always goin’ and goin’,” Casy stated in chapter 13 of the Grapes of Wrath. The end of the novel is strange, and incredibly open-ended. It is never revealed what happens to the Joads or who finally makes it in the end. It isn’t even known if the starving man actually survives. The final act and image in the novel is also a bit out there, with Rose of Sharon suckling this grown man to keep…

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck is a heart wrenching and eye opening novel. Steinbeck gives a clear and precise picture with the words he employs. One recurring perspective, abundantly obvious, is prejudism. Anger, fear and misunderstanding flow between the Californians and the Oklahoma immigrants, all of which cause a double-sided prejudice. As the Oklahomans come in droves from their devastated lands and attempt to build a new life for themselves, the Californians angrily look at them…

What does Zinn mean by “Under Control?” What I believe Zinn means by using the phrase “under control” is that the government had the opposite of over control. It is apparent the government lacked control in just about every aspect during this time. Meaning the system was out of control because there was a lack of control. The first indication that the government was loosing control during this time was found in the view of the United States citizens. People no longer had any trust in or showed…

I am ever so grateful to be promotion to an important investigative position for the FBI, however I must admit I am quite horrified at my first case. President Nixon killed by a reel of recording tape… talk about irony. This is not a time to joke around which is why I’ve been busy investigating several suspects to the murder of Richard Nixon and I am happy to say I have found quite some convincing ones. As you know, there were quite a few clues found in a White House trashcan that was very…

American leaders were once considered powerful and respected individuals appointed to represent the needs of their people. Great leaders throughout history like Abraham Lincoln and George Washington are commemorated for their service. But this optimism towards government has quickly eroded as Americans lose faith in their leaders. How has such an important institution lost the support of the people it represents? When the New York Times published the first papers of the infamous “pentagon…

Journalist Linda Ellerbee, once stated, "People are pretty much alike. It 's only that our differences are more susceptible to definition than our similarities." People do not realize how similar they are until they determine what they have in common. We can see that people accept our differences because our differences make us who we are. Linda Ellerbee 's statement reminded me of the main characters in the stories "The Devil and Tom Walker" and "Rip Van Winkle". Tom and Rip are two…