A Marxist education : Learning to change the world / Wayne Au.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Au, Wayne, 1972- author.

Contributor:

Class of 1932 Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Socialism and education.

Communism.

Physical Description:

305 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago, Illinois : Haymarket Books, 2018.

Summary:

In A Marxist Education, professor and education activist Wayne Au traces both his own development as a Marxist educator and the development of Marxist educational theory. Arguing that dialectical materialism is at the heart of Marxist theory, Au uses dialectics nor only to analyze the relationship between capitalism and schools, but also to understand teaching, learning, and curriculum. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 I Am My Relations: Becoming a Marxist Educator 1

2 The Heart of Marxism: Defining and Defending Marxist Dialectical Materialism 33

3 Capitalist Inequality and Schools: Marxism, Neo-Marxism, and the Dialectics of Educational (Re)Production 65

4 Dispossession and Defiance: A Race and Class Political Economy of Neoliberal Education Reform 91

5 "It Is through Others That We Develop into Ourselves": Vygotsky, Lenin, and the Social Formation of Consciousness 125

6 Teaching to Change the World: The Marxist, Dialectical Materialist Pedagogy of Paulo Freire 151

7 Curriculum to Change the World: Developing a Marxist-Feminist Standpoint in the Politics of Knowledge 177

8 A Dialectical Life: Working to Change the World 195.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-299) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1932 Fund.

ISBN:

1608469050

9781608469055

OCLC:

1006302300