Full Description
Revolutionary Learning explores the Marxist and feminist theorisation of dialectics, praxis and consciousness in education and learning. Moving beyond previous books on Marxism and education, which tend to focus on the reproductive nature of educational institutions, this groundbreaking text draws upon work by leading feminist, anti-racist and anti-colonial scholars in its exploration of the key philosophical concepts that build the Marxist analysis of learning.
Alongside chapters dealing with adult education, institutional ethnography and the promotion of civic engagement, the authors also reassess the contributions of Marx, Gramsci and Freire to educational theory. Adopting an innovative and explicitly feminist perspective, they relocate these theorists' Marxist analyses of education into a more complex relation to patriarchal and imperialist capitalism.
With significant implications for critical education scholarship, research and practice, Revolutionary Learning's importance lies not only in its contribution to theory, but its extension into pedagogical practice with special attention to how a revolutionary critique of ideology is taken up by educators in their daily work.
Contents
Dedication
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction: Revolutionary Feminist Praxis
2. What is 'Critical' About Critical Educational Theory?
3. Learning and the 'Matter' of Consciousness in Marxist Feminism
4. Centring Marxist Feminist Theory in Adult Learning
5. Institutional Ethnography: A Marxist Feminist Analysis
6. Capitalist Imperialism as Social Relations: Implications for Praxis, Pedagogy and Resistance
7. Learning by Dispossession: Democracy Promotion and Civic Engagement in Iraq and the United States
Index
