Task sixth

   

Henry Giroux, where is the Outrage? Critical Pedagogy in Dark Times

Critical pedagogy is described by Henry Giroux as an "educational movement, guided by passion and principle, to help students develop consciousness of freedom, recognize authoritarian tendencies, and connect knowledge to power and the ability to take constructive action." Education is so fundamental for society, that even the market forces, corporates, and private industries want to get their hands on it. Nowadays, schools are working as industries where children and teenagers are filled for the purpose of mere work. This issue is happening because this modern world needs workers and middle social class people to keep developing the same work in the same industries. Thus, the view of school is being reducing and shaping into the interests of the higher and powerful classes.

Moreover, all this new shaping issue is misleading the real function of education in schools. Schools were born to provide spaces where students can develop their culture and politics as an advance form the ancient model of education in which at the beginning the students had to attend to public elementary school in order to get knowledge about the universe. Later on, in higher levels, teenagers were expected to search schools in non-public places in this places the teenagers would debate and discuss their knowledge with peers or tutors. Therefore, all of this was done because of an ideal political and cultural state where men were able to participate in the crucial aspects that his country could have. For example, in the decisions (Democracy). That is, current society is damaging the cultural and political perspective of schools and turn it into a market business instead of being for teaching and empower the human being with enough knowledge to make them able to change some issues in the world.

Also, this new changes affect the role of teachers. When we turn schools into a mere work business, we are taking away the intellectual role of teacher and making them just instructors. Teachers' role is more over passing knowledge and it is to build a conscious and critical person who can think in the society through pedagogy. Thinking is referred to the action of propose and improve the reality situation. So, as big companies change the educational purpose of schools, teachers' actions become obsolete and their place can be occupying by anyone.

Finally, education in schools is losing its way and all thanks to the corporative interests of some little. When in reality, education itself was born to form individuals who can think and improve their reality's situation, someone who can propose and participate in real democracy. If we do not take action into how people is being educated, we will be suffering the imminent kicks in some near future.