When Schools Become Dead Zones of the Imagination: A Critical Pedagogy Manifesto

Henry A. Giroux @ Truthout - If the right-wing billionaires and apostles of corporate power have their way, public schools will become “dead zones of the imagination,” reduced to anti-public spaces that wage an assault on critical thinking, civic literacy and historical memory.1 Since the 1980s, schools have increasingly become testing hubs that de-skill teachers and disempower students.  Read more.