Renewing Dialogues in Marxism and Education: Openings

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Introduction and Overview: Marxism and Education—Renewing the Dialogues....Pages 3-9
Marxism, Education, and Dialogue....Pages 11-31
Front Matter....Pages 33-33
Toward a Political Economy of Education in the Transitional Period....Pages 35-56
The Role of Education in Capital Crisis Resolution....Pages 57-70
What Neoliberal Global and National Capitals Are Doing to Education Workers and to Equality—Some Implications for Social Class Analysis....Pages 71-102
Neoliberalism and Education: A Marxist Critique of New Labour’s Five-Year Strategy for Education....Pages 103-116
Front Matter....Pages 117-117
Indecision, Social Justice, and Social Change: A Dialogue on Marxism, Postmodernism, and Education....Pages 119-133
Textual Strategies of Representation and Legitimation in New Labour Policy Discourse....Pages 135-150
Marx, Education, and the Possibilities of a Fairer World: Reviving Radical Political Economy through Foucault....Pages 151-179
Front Matter....Pages 181-181
The Feminist Standpoint and the Trouble with “Informal Learning”: A Way Forward for Marxist-Feminist Educational Research....Pages 183-199
Myths of Mentoring: Developing a Marxist-Feminist Critique....Pages 201-214
Popular Press, Visible Value: How Debates on Exams and Student Debt Have Unmasked the Commodity Relations of the “Learning Age”....Pages 215-228
Front Matter....Pages 229-229
Academic Labor: Producing Value and Producing Struggles....Pages 231-247
Marxist Political Praxis: Class Notes on Academic Activism in the Corporate University....Pages 249-266
The Making of Humanity: The Pivotal Role of Dialectical Thinking in Humanization and the Concomitant Struggle for Self and Social Transformation....Pages 267-278
Back Matter....Pages 279-293