Marxism and Education: Renewing the Dialogue, Pedagogy, and Culture [Paperback]

Marxist thinking can offer a critical understanding of education in an international context. Jones tackles these issues from a variety of angles and perspectives, taking advantage of recent theoretical innovations in Marxist analysis as well as the personal experiences of educational practitioners with Marxist commitments.?With a specific focus on pedagogical practices as cultural practices, this book combines detailed case studies of local situations with broad, critical overviews of global development and challenges.PART I: MARXISM AND CULTURE: EDUCATIONAL PERSPECTIVES Culture, Class and Education: a Reflective Essay; T.Wrigley Learning to Labour with Feeling: Class, Gender and Emotion in Childcare Education and Training; H.Colley 'For a People's Clydebank': Learning the Ethic of Solidarity Amidst the Wreckage of Neo-Liberalism in Contemporary Scotland; C.Collins PART II: MARXISM AND THE CULTURE OF EDUCATIONAL PRACTICE Learning the Feeling Rules: Exploring Hochschild's Thesis on the Alienating Experience of Learning and Performing Emotional Labor; P.Brook Adult Education and the 'Matter' of Consciousness in Marxist-Feminism; S.Carpenter ?& S.Mojab A Little Night Reading: Marx, Assessment and the Professional Doctorate in Education; V.Perselli PART III: MARXISM AND EDUCATION: ADVANCING THEORY From Relational Ontology to a Transformative Activist Stance on Development and Learning: Expanding Vygotsky's (CHAT) Project; A.Stetsenko Activity, Activity Theory and the Marxian Legacy; P.Jones Critical Pedagogy as Revolutionary Practice; P.McLaren

As faith in capitalism continues to wobble, as radical educators sense a new energy and interest in alternatives, this volume brings fresh, bracing perspectives to the struggle. Robust and nuanced new Marxist scholarship animates cases ranging from nursery teachers to Venezuela s education reforms, and offers invaluable, powerful critical tools for those seeking to rejuvenate dialogues in Marxism and education. - TlCh