{"id":4041,"date":"2014-07-15T12:14:44","date_gmt":"2014-07-15T18:14:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/?p=4041"},"modified":"2014-09-12T11:49:03","modified_gmt":"2014-09-12T17:49:03","slug":"henry-a-giroux-thinking-dangerously-in-an-age-of-political-betrayal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2014\/07\/15\/henry-a-giroux-thinking-dangerously-in-an-age-of-political-betrayal\/","title":{"rendered":"Henry A. Giroux | Thinking Dangerously in an Age of Political Betrayal"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p>Ah, the state of education in the Republican U.S.<\/p>\n<p>How little things have changed&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/truth-out.org\/opinion\/item\/24869-henry-a-giroux-thinking-dangerously-in-an-age-of-political-betrayal#.U8T9LCM-DeM.facebook\">Henry A. Giroux | Thinking Dangerously in an Age of Political Betrayal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>2014:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>a Texas GOP Party platform that states, &#8220;We oppose teaching of Higher order Thinking Skills [because they] have the purpose of challenging the student&#8217;s fixed beliefs and undermining parental control&#8221; to a Tennessee bill that &#8220;allows the teaching of creationism in state&#8217;s classrooms.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>1889:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cOur schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening\u2026The average American [should be] content with their humble role in life, because they&#8217;re not tempted to think about any other role.\u201d &#8211; William Harris, U.S. Commissioner of Education, 1889<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Henry Giroux&#8217;s essay is kind of thick and may take some time to digest, but well worth the read.<\/p>\n<div class='wp_likes' id='wp_likes_post-4041'><a class='like' href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(4041);\" title='' ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-likes\/images\/like.png\" alt='' border='0'\/><\/a><span class='text'>Be the first to like.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class='like' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(4041);\">Like<\/a><\/div>\n<div class='unlike' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.unlike(4041);\">Unlike<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Ah, the state of education in the Republican U.S. How little things have changed&#8230;&#8230; Henry A. Giroux | Thinking Dangerously in an Age of Political Betrayal. 2014: a Texas GOP Party platform that states, &#8220;We oppose teaching of Higher order &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2014\/07\/15\/henry-a-giroux-thinking-dangerously-in-an-age-of-political-betrayal\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9,14,24],"tags":[41,326],"class_list":["post-4041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-educational-technology","category-general","category-teaching-learning","tag-education","tag-united-states"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Hsb6-13b","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4798,"url":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2015\/06\/18\/walking-the-talk-signature-pedagogies-and-metateaching-in-graduate-level-education-courses\/","url_meta":{"origin":4041,"position":0},"title":"Walking the Talk : Signature Pedagogies and Metateaching in Graduate-Level Education Courses","author":"Katrin Becker","date":"June 18, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Here's another fairly recent talk, also from CNIE 2014. [P] Presentation Becker, K. 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If anything, the situation has grown worse in the mean time. This article is about US schools, but the situation is little better in\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Educational Technology&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Educational Technology","link":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/category\/educational-technology\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3316,"url":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2013\/03\/31\/boredom-is-necessary-in-order-for-creativity-to-flourish\/","url_meta":{"origin":4041,"position":3},"title":"Boredom is necessary in order for creativity to flourish.","author":"Katrin Becker","date":"March 31, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Cool. I've been saying this for years!! 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There are a few things that really jumped out for me: The goal should be to have \u201call students\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Educational Technology&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Educational Technology","link":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/category\/educational-technology\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4041"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4043,"href":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4041\/revisions\/4043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}