Public pedagogy as cultural politics: Stuart Hall and the 'crisis' of culture

Journal/Book: Cult Stud. 2000; 14: 11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4Ee, England. Routledge. 341-360.

Abstract: This article argues that Stuart Hall's work provides an important theoretical framework for developing an expanded notion of public pedagogy, for making the pedagogical central to any understanding of political agency, and for addressing the primacy of public pedagogy and cultural politics in any viable theory of social change. Hall's work becomes particularly important not only in making education crucial to the practice of cultural studies, but also in providing a theoretical and political corrective to recent attacks on cultural politics, which cut across ideological lines and include theorists as politically diverse as Harold Bloom, Richard Rorty and Todd Gitlin.

Note: Article Giroux HA, Penn State Univ, University Pk,PA 16802 USA

Keyword(s): public pedagogy; cultural politics; governmentality; culture; power; education; higher education; public sphere

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