Abstract
The author applies the critical pedagogy advocated by Giroux to the film "The Insider" as an example, which depicts the struggle of a journalist and an employee against a tobacco company. The film highlights that (media) pedagogy has the task of encouraging learners to reflect critically. Cultural studies coined the term "cultural worker", in the film this figure is embodied by the journalist. He understands his profession as a vocation, perceives his counterpart as an individual and conveys to him that he has the possibility to change the prevailing conditions. Here the author explains, in the spirit of Gramsci, that pedagogy and politics are interdependent. Invisible curricula determine that learners are educated in conformity with the system. Critical pedagogy wants to make these structures visible so that they can be criticised. However, the language of critique alone is not sufficient to change power relations, it must be accompanied by a language of hope, teachers and learners must be able to imagine spaces beyond the known sphere of life and think utopically.
