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Postmodern educaton based oil Henry Girouxʹs ideas

This article is aimed at surveying education from the postmodern viewpoint based on Henry Girouxʹs ideas. Postmodern education has been derived from postmodern theory, a reflection of postmodern views on general education. Henry Giroux, born in 1943, is a postmodern educational theoretician. He has proposed cross-border education, a combination of postmodernism critical thinking, feminism & re-conceptualistic curriculum. Cross-border education is a criticism of traditional education which is based on modern techings specially of Tylorian logic. Giroux believes that education has a political trend by its nature, hence schools must be viewed as the public democratic territory in which critical education must result in critical citizenship. In Girouxʹs education, much emphasis has been put on differences among minority group, woman, & racial minorities. According to Giroux teachers as intellectuals are social reformists with no authority who criticize general education. This is the case because educational texts are not sacred texts & schoole must try to initiate a language of possibility to create new froms of knowledge. Emphasis on multifarious ideas in classrooms, authority-centered texts, radical democracy & hidden curriculum are some other Girouxʹs ideas. He asserts that using cultural studies as an integrative course of study in order to enrich critical education & re-identify power-knowledge couple in current education.