Marxism and Educational Theory
Marxism and Educational Theory

Author: Mike Cole

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2007-10-18

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 1134322593

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We live in a world where thousands make massive profits out of the labours of others, while those others exist as wage slaves, millions of whom die of starvation and poverty-related illness every year. The fundamental aim of Marxism is the overthrow of the anarchic, exploitative and eco-destructive system of world capitalism and its replacement by world socialism and equality. To build a socialist world is a task of gargantuan proportions, but one that Marxists believe is eminently achievable. This book addresses some of these challenges from within educational theory. The key theoretical issues addressed are: utopian socialism poststructuralism and postmodernism transmodernism globalisation, neo-liberalism and environmental destruction the new imperialism critical race theory. Marxism and Educational Theory compellingly and informatively propels the debate forward in the pursuit of that socialist future. In that quest, suggestions are made to connect theoretical issues with the more practical concerns of the school and the classroom. With a specially written Foreword by Peter McLaren, this timely book will be of interest to academics and students interested in educational theory, the sociology of education, sociology, politics, philosophy and critical theory.

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.

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.

Marxism Against Postmodernism in Educational Theory
Marxism Against Postmodernism in Educational Theory

Author: Dave Hill

Publisher: Lexington Books

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 9780739103463

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Postmodernism has become the orthodoxy in educational theory. It heralds the end of grand theories like Marxism and liberalism, scorning any notion of a united feminist challenge to patriachy, of united anti-racist struggle, and of united working-class movements against capitalist exploitation and oppression. For postmodernists, the world is fragmented, history is ended, and all struggles are local and particularistic. Written by internationally renowned British and American educational theorists Marxism Against Postmodernism in Educational Theory--a substantially revised edition of the original 1999 work Postmodernism in Educational Theory--critically examines the infusion of postmodernism and theories of postmodernity into educational theory, policy, and research. The writers argue that postmodernism provides neither a viable educational politics, nor the foundation for effective radical educational practice and offer an alternative 'politics of human resistance' which puts the challenge to capitalism firmly on the agenda of educational theory, politics, 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.

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.

Marxism and Education
Marxism and Education

Author: Lotar Rasinski

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-12-15

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 9780815369004

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Introduction / Dave Hill, Kostas Skordoulis, and Lotar Rasinski -- European Education Policy and Critical Education / George Grollios -- The Schooling of Teachers in England: Rescuing Pedagogy / Gail Edwards -- Transformation In The Teaching Profession In Turkey: From Socialist- Idealist Teacher To Exam-Oriented Technician / Ahmet Yildiz -- Education, Secularism and Secular Education in Turkey / Unal Ozmen -- Assessing the Effects of the Economic crisis on Public Education in Greece / Theopoula-Polina Chrysochou -- The Endpoint of Expectation from Education, the Starting Point of Struggle: A Critical Approach to White-Collar Unemployment / Aygulen Kayahan Karakul -- The Position of an Educational Researchers in a Semi-Peripheral Region: Critical Autoethnography of an Academic Subject in Hungary / György Mészáros -- Revolutionary Critical Pedagogy and the Struggle against Capital Today / Peter McLaren and Derek R. Ford -- Considerations on a Marxist Pedagogy of Science / Kostas Skordoulis -- "A picture held us captive ..." Marx, Wittgenstein and the "Paradox of Ideology" / Lotar Rasinski -- Empowerment in Education: a New Logic of Emancipation or a New Logic of Power? / Agnieszka Dziemianowicz-Bak -- Marxist Education Against Capitalism in Neoliberal / Neoconservative Times / Dave Hill

Marxism and Educational Theory
Marxism and Educational Theory

Author: Mike Cole

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2007-10-18

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 1134322607

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Mike Cole considers the origins and developments within the evolution of Marxist theory and postmodern theory. He analyses how Marxism and postmodernism are articulated within the sociology of education since its inception up to the present.

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.