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Book SynopsisThis book will address a number of urgent themes in education today that include multiculturalism, the politics of whiteness, the globalization of capital, neoliberalism, postmodernism, imperialism, and current debates in Marxist social theory.
Trade ReviewThis is an instant classic! Peter McLaren and Ramin Farahmandpur move Marxism into the new millennium. -- David Gabbard, East Carolina University
This latest offering by McLaren, co-authored with Ramin Farahmandpur, provides critical analysis of the relevant dimensions of Marxist theory in application to a critique of globalization. Professors of labor studies, sociology, anthropology, political science, business, and especially education, would be negligent to ignore the vital issues raised in this powerful and timely book. The call for critical revolutionary pedagogy should be heeded by educators, and they should be alarmed by the many examples provided of first amendment violations of the rights of teachers and students across America in the name of patriotism. A must-read! -- Roberto Bahruth, Boise State University
In this excellent volume the authors explain why a Marxist analysis of the existing capitalist system is necessary to understand the current neoliberal assault. This book arrives just in time! -- Richard Brosio, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
At a time when the administration of Emperor Bush has taken American imperialism to new and dangerous heights and at a time when there is barely a country which has not been caught in the cross-hairs of American military might and the radical free-market ideology of corporate globalization, McLaren and Farahmandpur have fashioned a book that is a timely, critical intervention for our times. A revolutionary pedagogy of resistance has never been more needed. -- Valerie Scatamburlo-D'Annibale, University of Windsor
McLaren and Farahmandpur lay bare the hollow claims of the protoganists for contemporary capitalist society and uncover the new imperialism as a key topic for education today. Another education is possible! -- Glenn Rikowski, University of Northampton, UK
This is a powerful and passionate indictment of capitalism and imperialism—a necessary corrective to mainstream and fashionable postmodernist analyses that avoid and deny old-fashioned 'grand narratives' such as exploitation and class oppression. -- John Marciano, State University of New York, Cortland
Table of ContentsChapter 1 Foreword Chapter 2 Reconsidering Marx in Post-Marxist Times: A Requiem for Postmodernism? Chapter 3 Freire, Marx, and the New Imperialism: Toward a Revolutionary Praxis Chapter 3 Critical Pedagogy, Postmodernism, and the Retreat from Class: Towards a Contraband Pedagogy Chapter 4 Critical Multiculturalism and the Globalization of Capital: Some Implications for a Politics of Resistance Chapter 6 Globalization, Class, and Multiculturalism: Fragments from a Red Notebook Chapter 6 Teaching against Globalization and the New Imperialism: Toward a Revolutionary Pedagogy Chapter 7 Educational Policy and the Socialist Imagination: Revolutionary Citizenship as a Pedagogy of Resistance Chapter 9 Critical Revolutionary Pedagogy at Ground Zero: Renewing the Educational Left after September 11 Chapter 9 Teaching in and Against the Empire: Critical Pedagogy as Revolutionary Praxis Chapter 11 Afterword
