Giroux’s “Public Pedagogy & the Responsibility of Public Intellectuals: Youth, Littleton, & the Loss of Innocence”

Giroux, Henry A. "Public Pedagogy and the Responsibility of Intellectuals: Youth, Littleton, and the Loss of Innocence." JAC, vol. 20, no. 1, 2000, pp. 9-42. Giroux's work here amplifies what's at the heart of public pedagogy: the tension that arises from society's in/formal teaching to reinforce a particular status quo--or dominant discourse (a la Gramsci)--and …