Betraying the Intellectual Tradition: Public Intellectuals and the Crisis of Youth

Autor/in	Giroux, Henry A.
Titel	Betraying the Intellectual Tradition: Public Intellectuals and the Crisis of Youth
Quelle	In: Language and Intercultural Communication, 3 (2003) 3, S.172-186 (15 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1470-8477
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Altruism; Young Adults; Adolescents; Higher Education; Political Issues; Moral Values; Power Structure; Educational Change; Discourse Modes; Teaching Methods; Social Responsibility; Political Socialization; Critical Theory; Role of Education + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Altruistic behavior; Altruismus; Young adult; Junger Erwachsener; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Politischer Faktor; Moral value; Ethischer Wert; Bildungsreform; Diskursethik; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Soziale Verantwortung; Politische Sozialisation; Kritische Theorie; Bildungsauftrag
Abstract	Building upon the late Pierre Bourdieu's belief that intellectuals had a major responsibility in bridging intellectual work and the operation of politics, this paper argues that intellectuals, especially those in higher education, need to recognise that youth is an important moral referent and political starting point for addressing a number of issues related to a wide ranging number of political problems, including environmental and class concerns to matters of race, gender, and disability. Youth invokes compassion and understanding, which are crucial to shaping the civic imagination. The emphasis on young people's experience is important because it foregrounds the relationship between power and the lived realities shaped by material relations of power. More specifically, young people provide a more crucial lens through which hegemony can be analysed, compassion mobilised, and politics engaged beyond local interests and national boundaries. Educators need a new language in which young people are not detached from politics but become central to any transformative notion of pedagogy conceived in terms of social and public responsibility. (Contains 2 notes.) (As Provided).
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