{"product_id":"a-marxist-education-9781608469055","title":"A Marxist Education","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn A Marxist Education: Learning to Change the World, professor and education activist Wayne Au traces both his own development as a Marxist educator, as well as the development of Marxist educational theory. Arguing that dialectical materialism is at the heart of Marxist theory, Au uses dialectics to not only analyse the relationship between capitalism and schools, but also to understand teaching, learning, and curriculum. In the process, A Marxist Education challenges the idea that Marxism is Eurocentric, reclaims noted educators such as Lev Vygotsky and Paulo Freire as being within the Marxist tradition, and integrates racial and feminist traditions into analyses of education, consciousness, and power.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"In \u003cem\u003eA Marxist Education\u003c\/em\u003e, Wayne Au reveals the method he has applied for years to understand structures of education that have made him one of the most insightful voices nationally in the struggle for education justice. Au boldly illustrates to educators and activists how Marxism is a dynamic tool for resisting the ways schooling has been used to reproduce racism and oppression.\"\u003cbr\u003e--Jesse Hagopian, author of \u003cem\u003eMore Than a Score\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Shattering myths and misconceptions about Marxism in every chapter, Wayne Au shows how Marx’s method has guided his pathbreaking research on the racial politics of education policy and his work as an activist and organizer for educational justice.\"\u003cbr\u003e--Brian Jones, Associate Director of Education at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Au’s purpose is to upend the dogma of common sense, to analyze the educational catastrophe before us and the seeds of the struggles we will need to mount in order to imagine and then enact just schools; his method is dialectical-materialism; his insights are profound and plentiful. The result is an essential book for these times, a weapon to carry to the next school board meeting, the picket line, or the barricades.\"\u003cbr\u003e--Bill Ayers is the author of \u003cem\u003eDemand the Impossible\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eTeaching Toward Freedom\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGeneral Contents1.Introduction(revised intellectual biography plus more typical introductory remarks and context, need, placement of this work)2.Against Economic Determinism(revised paper on Neo-Marxism and what I characterize as a misreading of Marx to begin with)3.Critical Reflection in the Classroom(dialectical conception of consciousness exists as individual book chapter in an edited collection and in Chapter Two of Critical Curriculum Studies)4.Curricular Standpoint(revision of existing versions as edited book chapter, aspects of chapters 1, 5, \u0026amp; 6 ofCritical Curriculum Studies and TeachersCollege Record article)5.Epistemology of the Oppressed(revised paper on Freire and dialectical materialism)(to be written-articulatedacross other books\/articles)7.Meritocracy 2.0: Neoliberal multiculturalism and the Racial Project of High-Stakes Testing8.Vygotsky and Lenin on Learning9.Education \u0026amp; Inequality-Relative Autonomy10.Dialectical research methods11.Conclusion-Reflections on practice","brand":"Haymarket Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51359721881943,"sku":"9781608469055","price":25.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781608469055.jpg?v=1754125515","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/a-marxist-education-9781608469055","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}