educators need to become provocateurs;
they need to take a stand while
refusing to be involved in
either a cynical relativism or doctrinaire
politics…central to intellectual life is the
pedagogical and political imperative that
academics engage in rigorous social criticism
while becoming a stubborn force for challenging
false prophets, deconstructing social relations
that promote material and symbolic violence, and
speaking the ‘truth’ to dominant forms of power
and authority
Giroux (1997)
