Henry Giroux: Where is the Outrage?                 Critical Pedagogy in Dark Times

Human beings have passed through different stages to get where they are now. Many centuries ago there were no such as human values. People were seen as objects to whom any could take any advantage. But everything looked as if it were going to change with that appearance of the democratic values in the 20th century. The U.S.A emerged with a new ideology and pedagogy supposedly to live like a brotherhood. This was founded and motivated under the inspiration the  French´s Human Rights

Nonetheless, what started with a noble cause, finished by turning out in a Market of values where everything can become an object of value included people. This new ideology of capitalism permeated all of the spheres of our society. Elementary schools, schools, and universities became centers of teaching for consumerism. What matter now is who has the power and the ideology to dominate others. This is achieved through any means either by ideology or by using the war machinery which does not recognise justice much less compassion.

By analysing all this change which have been occurring in our time, it is the duty of all educators to start changing our reality. It is a proper time to start a revolution and insurrection against this new model of oppression. But as this society is mentally ill, the responsabiñity of the new change is in charge of new students. Their first tool for changing is the education, but not only school education but also education as is understood in social media and others. This with the goal of working for a better society from all the spheres.

Students all around the world have to become aware that governments have excluded them from participation and that their ideas have become useless and disposable. Also, that the power of those who have the money wants to keep on oppressing them. So, just to recap the solution for many of our problems lies with the empowerment of our knowledge looking for a new pedagogy that emancipates us.  A new educational pedagogy that teaches us to look for the well-fare of all humanity.