Anarchist pedagogies : collective actions, theories, and critical reflections on education / edited by Robert H. Haworth.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Haworth, Robert H., 1972-

James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Anarchism--Study and teaching.

Anarchism.

Education and state--Philosophy.

Education and state.

Physical Description:

340 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Oakland, CA : PM Press, [2012]

Summary:

Education is a challenging subject for anarchists. Many are critical about working within a state-run education system that is embedded in hierarchical, standardized, and authoritarian structures. Numerous individuals and collectives envision the creation of counterpublics or alternative educational sites as possible forms of resistance, while other anarchists see themselves as "saboteurs" within the public arena-believing that there is a need to contest dominant forms of power and educational practices from multiple fronts. Of course, if anarchists agree that there are no blueprints for education, the question remains, in what dynamic and creative ways can we construct nonhierarchical, antiauthoritarian, mutual, and voluntary educational spaces?

Contributors to this volume engage readers in important and challenging issues in the area of anarchism and education. From Francisco Ferrer's modern schools in Spain and the Work People's College in the United States, to contemporary actions in developing, "free skools" in the UK and Canada, to direct action education such as learning to work as a "street medic" in protests against neoliberalism, the contributors illustrate the importance of developing complex connections between educational theories and collective actions. These educational experiences offer anarchists, activists, and critical educators invaluable examples for potential teaching and learning environments outside of authoritarian and capitalist structures. Major themes in the volume include: learning from historical anarchist experiments in education, ways that contemporary anarchists create dynamic and situated learning spaces, and finally, critically reflecting on theoretical frameworks and educational practices. Contributors include: David Gabbard, Jeffery Shantz, Isabelle Fremeaux and John Jordan, Abraham P. DeLeon, Elsa Noterman, Andre Pusey, Matthew Weinstein, Alex Khasnabish, and many others. Book jacket.

Contents:

Anarchism, the state, and the role of education / Justin Mueller

Updating the anarchist forecast for social justice in our compulsory schools / David Gabbard

Educate, organize, emancipate: the Work People's College and the Industrial Workers of the World / Saku Pinta

From deschooling to unschooling: rethinking anarchopedagogy after Ivan Illich / Joseph Todd

Street medicine, anarchism, and ciencia popular / Matthew Weinstein

Anarchist pedagogy in action: Paideia, escuela libre / Isabelle Fremeaux, John Jordan

Spaces of learning: the Anarchist Free Skool / Jeffery Shantz

The Nottingham Free School: notes toward a systemization of praxis / Sara C. Motta

Learning to win: anarchist infrastructures of resistance / Jeffery Shantz

Inside, outside, and on the edge of the academy: experiments in radical pedagogies / Elsa Noterman, Andre Pusey

Anarchy in the academy: staying true to anarchism as an academic-activist / Caroline K. Kaltefleiter, Anthony J. Nocella II

To walk questioning: Zapatismo, the radical imagination, and a transnational pedagogy of liberation/ Alex Khasnabish

Anarchism, pedagogy, queer theory and poststructuralism: toward a positive ethical theory, of knowledge and the self / Lucy Nicholas

Anarcho-feminist psychology: contributing to postformal criticality / Curry Stephenson Malott

Paideia for praxis: philosophy and pedagogy as practices of liberation / Nathan Jun

That teaching is impossible / Alejandro de Acosta

Against the grain of the status quo: anarchism behind enemy lines / Abraham P. DeLeon

Let the riots begin / Allan Antliff.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.

ISBN:

1604864842

9781604864847

OCLC:

726820725

Publisher Number:

99949951196