Public pedagogy and the quest for a substantive democracy

Abstract

In this age, characterized by the intensification of globalization and the wide diffusion of the ideology of the marketplace, entailing a fierce onslaught, for the purposes of commodification, on most public and private spaces, Henry Giroux continues to explore resources of hope for the revitalization of the public sphere. Although enhanced by some of the most critical theoretical insights of postmodernism, the process of exploration, found in Giroux's work, is predicted on the emancipatory ideals one associates with the modernist legacy, notably those of social justice, equity, and solidarity.