1st Edition

Marxism and Education International Perspectives on Theory and Action

Edited By Lotar Rasinski, Dave Hill, Kostas Skordoulis Copyright 2018
204 Pages
by Routledge

204 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

204 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Marxism and Education offers contemporary Marxist analyses of recent and current education policy, and develops Marxist-based practices of resistance from a series of national and international perspectives. Part I identifies and critiques pressure points, impacts of, and developments in capitalism and education, as these pertain to education policy, teacher education, and assessment. In Part... Read more

Chapter One: Introduction



Dave Hill, Kostas Skordoulis, and Lotar Rasiński





Chapter Two: European Education Policy and Critical Education



George Grollios





Chapter Three: The Schooling of Teachers in England: Rescuing Pedagogy



Gail Edwards





Chapter Four: Transformation In The Teaching Profession In Turkey: From Socialist- Idealist Teacher To Exam-Oriented Technician



Ahmet Yildiz





Chapter Five: Education, Secularism and Secular Education in Turkey



Unal Ozmen





Chapter Six: Assessing the Effects of the Economic crisis on Public Education in Greece



Theopoula-Polina Chrysochou





Chapter Seven: The Endpoint of Expectation from Education, the Starting Point of Struggle: A Critical Approach to White-Collar Unemployment



Aygulen Kayahan Karakul





Chapter Eight: The Position of an Educational Researchers in a Semi-Peripheral Region: Critical Autoethnography of an Academic Subject in Hungary



György Mészáros





Chapter Nine: Revolutionary Critical Pedagogy and the Struggle against Capital Today



Peter McLaren and Derek R. Ford





Chapter Ten: Considerations on a Marxist Pedagogy of Science



Kostas Skordoulis





Chapter Eleven: "A picture held us captive..." Marx, Wittgenstein and the "Paradox of Ideology"



Lotar Rasiński





Chapter Twelve: Empowerment in Education – a New Logic of Emancipation or a New Logic of Power?



Agnieszka Dziemianowicz-Bąk





Chapter Thirteen: Marxist Education Against Capitalism in Neoliberal / Neoconservative Times (i)



Dave Hill

Biography

Lotar Rasinski is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Lower Silesia in Wroclaw Poland.



Dave Hill is Visiting Professor at the Social Policy Research Centre at Middlesex University, England, and at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece, and is Emeritus Professor of Education Research at Anglia Ruskin University, England



Constantine Skordoulis is Professor of Epistemology of Science and Director of the Science Education Laboratory at the Faculty of Education, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece.