A Marxist Education

A Marxist Education

Author: Wayne Au

Publisher: Haymarket Books

Published: 2018-06-05

Total Pages: 229

ISBN-13: 1608469069

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Dialectics of Education is a rich collection of essays analyzing both the role of education in shaping ideology in the United States and the political implications of struggles for educational justice. This book seeks to recover and reframe the dialectical materialist tradition in critical education, studies and carries this tradition forward into theory and practice relevant for today. Building on the tradition of the groundbreaking book Schooling in Capitalist America that was first published in 1976, author Wayne Au presents a Marxist perspective on educational policies and pedagogy and the highlights the potential for struggle in both the political arena and the classroom. This book is an essential tool in the growing resistance against the privatization of education and for the struggle for educational rights for all students regardless of ethnicity or social status.


Marx and Education

Marx and Education

Author: Jean Anyon

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2011-05-15

Total Pages: 129

ISBN-13: 1136816569

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This concise, introductory book by internationally renowned scholar Jean Anyon centers on the ideas of Marx that have been used in education studies as a guide to theory, analysis, research, and practice.


Critical Race Theory and Education

Critical Race Theory and Education

Author: M. Cole

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2009-03-30

Total Pages: 218

ISBN-13: 0230620116

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Critical Race Theory (CRT) in the realm of Education has a long history in the US, and is now a bourgeoning field of enquiry in the UK. Critical Race Theory and Education is the first book-length response to CRT from a Marxist perspective. It looks at CRT's origins in Critical Legal Studies, critiques the work of major US and UK Critical Race Theorists and also looks at some of CRT's strengths. CRT and Marxism are contextualized with respect to both neo-liberal global capitalism and imperialism and to antiracist socialist developments in South America. The book concludes with some suggestions for classroom practice.


Marxism and Education (RLE Edu L)

Marxism and Education (RLE Edu L)

Author: Madan Sarup

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-05-13

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 1136460667

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This book introduces the student to the various phenomenological and humanistic Marxist perspectives as they are being applied to education and provides an account of the strengths and weaknesses of these perspectives, drawing on a variety of disciplines in order to explain the controversies described. The opening chapters deal with the phenomenological perspective in the sociology of education, discussing its adoption of a phenomenological model of man, its use of anthropological studies, the importance of classroom studies, and its rejection of the ‘liberal’ philosophy of education. The aim is to show the significance of these ideas for education, with a discussion of the concept of alienation and schooling, developments in Marxism such as the focus on the mode of production and the labour process, and the political economy of education.


The Critical Turn in Education

The Critical Turn in Education

Author: Isaac Gottesman

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-03-17

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 1317670957

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The Critical Turn in Education traces the historical emergence and development of critical theories in the field of education, from the introduction of Marxist and other radical social theories in the 1960s to the contemporary critical landscape. The book begins by tracing the first waves of critical scholarship in the field through a close, contextual study of the intellectual and political projects of several core figures including, Paulo Freire, Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Michael Apple, and Henry Giroux. Later chapters offer a discussion of feminist critiques, the influx of postmodernist and poststructuralist ideas in education, and critical theories of race. While grounded in U.S. scholarship, The Critical Turn in Education contextualizes the development of critical ideas and political projects within a larger international history, and charts the ongoing theoretical debates that seek to explain the relationship between school and society. Today, much of the language of this critical turn has now become commonplace—words such as "hegemony," "ideology," and the term "critical" itself—but by providing a historical analysis, The Critical Turn in Education illuminates the complexity and nuance of these theoretical tools, which offer ways of understanding the intersections between individual identities and structural forces in an attempt to engage and overturn social injustice.


Critical Realism for Marxist Sociology of Education

Critical Realism for Marxist Sociology of Education

Author: Grant Banfield

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-09-16

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 131741148X

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This book offers a critical realist intervention into the field of Marxist Sociology of Education. Critical realism, as developed by British philosopher Roy Bhaskar, is known for its capacity to serve as a conceptual underlabourer to applied fields like education. Indeed, its success in clarifying and resolving thorny issues of educational theory and practice is now well established. Given critical realism’s sympathetic Marxist origins, its productive and critical engagement with Marxism has an even longer history. To date there has been little sustained attention given to the application of critical realism to Marxist educational praxis. The book addresses this gap in existing scholarship. Its conceptual ground clearing of the field of Marxist Sociology of Education centres on two problematics well-known in the social sciences: naturalism and the structure-agency relation. Marxist theory from the days of Marx to the present is shown to also be haunted by these problematics. This has resulted in considerable tension around the meaning and nature of, for example, reform, revolution, class determinism and class struggle. With its emergence in the 1970s as a child of Western Marxism, the field continues to be an expression of these tensions that seriously limit its transformative potential. Addressing these issues and offering conceptual clarification in the interests of revolutionary educational practice, Critical Realism for Marxist Sociology of Education provides a new perspective on education which will be of interest to students, scholars and practitioners alike.


Knowledge, Ideology and the Politics of Schooling

Knowledge, Ideology and the Politics of Schooling

Author: Rachel Sharp

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-04-28

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 1351809636

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First published in 1980, this book argues that a theory of ideology is essential to a theory of education. It relates developments in the Marxist theory of ideology to the analysis of schooling in a capitalist society. Beginning with an appraisal of the early twentieth century liberal social theorists, including Weber, Durkheim, Veblen and Mannheim, it demonstrates that the weakness of their approaches arose from a failure to comprehend adequately the nature of capitalism. It then outlines the state of the theory of ideology at the time and applies the concept in an analysis of contemporary schooling, concluding with a discussion of its political implications. The application of the theory of ideology offers important possibilities for a radical socialist strategy on education.


Marxist Madrassas: the Hostile Takeover of Higher Education in America

Marxist Madrassas: the Hostile Takeover of Higher Education in America

Author: Clifford Kincaid

Publisher:

Published: 2016-08-30

Total Pages: 182

ISBN-13: 9781536826364

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Several excellent books have been written about leftist domination of higher education. This book goes further, making the case that the old brick-and-mortar schools which have been taken over by the left can and should be replaced with true centers of learning that offer real academic freedom, and courses that teach marketable skills at a reduced cost. The kind of "political revolution" we need in this country is not of the socialist variety. Rather, it's a way forward that offers real learning through alternative educational institutions that provide online opportunities and career-advancement to students where they live and work. It means defunding the expensive and corrupt "Marxist Madrassas" and launching a true revolution in learning.ASI President Cliff Kincaid argues that the process of subversion in higher education has been going on too long, even at Catholic colleges, to hope for reform of the academic institutions that have been captured and rotted from within. "We need to defund those that already exist, and create new institutions to replace those in the hands of the cultural Marxists," he says. "Breaking up the liberal media monopoly has been a great step forward. Breaking up the liberal monopoly in higher education has yet to be accomplished. It is absolutely essential, however, in order to maintain academic freedom and freedom in general in society. Dr. Tina Trent notes that, "As growing numbers of students and their parents are finally noticing, American college and university campuses rank among the least intellectually free places in our nation." She analyzes the State University of New York at New Paltz, which banned Cliff Kincaid from campus in March of 2016, and its Office of Compliance and Campus Climate.


Class Consciousness and Education in Sweden

Class Consciousness and Education in Sweden

Author: Alpesh Maisuria

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-12-14

Total Pages: 223

ISBN-13: 135197677X

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Emerging from a Marxist perspective, this book focuses on the importance of social class and the role of education broadly in relation to the possibility of revolutionary change in Sweden and beyond. Critically tracing the celebrated so-called ‘Swedish model’ from its inception to its current neoliberalisation, Maisuria explores the contours of class as part of social democratic history, culture and education, especially against the alternatives of communism and fascism. Presenting empirical research on class consciousness within a higher education context, Maisuria analyses student testimonies on their perceptions of social democracy and ‘Swedishness’ with ethno-racial dynamics, which is subjected to a Gramscian and Critical Realist derived explanatory critique for social transformation.


Marxist Perspectives in the Sociology of Education (RLE Edu L Sociology of Education)

Marxist Perspectives in the Sociology of Education (RLE Edu L Sociology of Education)

Author: Maurice Levitas

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012-05-04

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 113646817X

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The major theories explored are those concerned with social mobility and those which derive from a relativist position in Sociology, both of which see education as a selection mechanism for a stratified society. Social class, family, sociolinguistics and schools are among the topics discussed. In this analysis the author: defines key areas in the sociology of education gives access to important concepts of Marx and Engels strengthens sociological starting points by adding a Marxist element discriminates between radically different directions in education maps the main features of long-term working class goals This thoroughgoing Marxist critique of widely prevalent notions in the sociology of education provides a compass by which place and direction in this area of education may be found by students, teachers and parents.