This encyclopaedia showcases the explanatory power of Marxist educational theory and practice. The entries have been written by 51 leading authors from across the globe. The 39 entries cover an impressive range of contemporary issues and historical problematics. The editor has designed the book to appeal to readers within the Marxism and education intellectual tradition, and also those who are curious newcomers, as well as critics of Marxism.
The
Encyclopaedia of Marxism and Education is the first of its kind. It is a landmark text with relevance for years to come for the productive dialogue between Marxism and education for transformational thinking and practice.
Alpesh Maisuria, Ph.D, is Associate Professor of Education Policy in Critical Education at University of the West of England, Bristol, UK. Maisuria has an extensive publications record, including authoring
Class Consciousness and Education in Sweden, and also
Life for the Academic in the Neoliberal University, both published by Routledge.
"The encyclopaedia not only provides a thorough critique of the effects of neoliberal policies on education but also unravels a myriad of reasons for the condition of our world, which is marked by super-exploitation and intensification of labour, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. [...] This encyclopaedia illuminates a path out of the growing darkness, which threatens not only the human species but our whole planet because capitalism shapes not only people in the Global North and South but also adversely affects Nature through commodification and marketisation". Dr. Dilnaz Boga and Rohit Ranjan in CounterCurrents.org. Read the full review
here.
Acknowledgements
List of Figures and Tables
Notes on Contributors
1 Introduction
Alpesh Maisuria 2 The 4th Industrial Revolution, Post-Capitalism, Waged Labour and Vocational Education
James Avis 3 Alienation and Education
Richard Hall 4 Alternatives to Capitalism
Peter Hudis 5 Capital Accumulation and Education
John Fraser Rice 6 Colonialisms and Class
Spyros Themelis 7 Communism: The Party – Pedagogy and Revolution from Marx to China
Collin L. Chambers and Derek R. Ford 8 Corporate State: “Downhill All the Way” – Education in England from Welfare to Corporate State
Patrick Ainley 9 Critical Education
Sandra Mathison and E. Wayne Ross 10 Critical Realism
Grant Banfield 11 Cuban-Marxist Education
Rosi Smith, Leticia de las Mercedes García Rosabal and Maikel J. Ortiz Bosch 12 Dialectical Materialism (Materialist Dialectics)
Constantine (Kostas) Skordoulis 13 Disaster Education
John Preston 14 Early Childhood, Feminism, and Marx
Rachel Rosen and Jan Newberry 15 Employment: Education without Jobs – Young People, Qualifications, and Employment in 21st Century Britain
Martin Allen 16 Ethnography of Education and Marxism: Education Research for Social Transformation
Dennis Beach 17 Freire, Paulo (1921–1997) as a Marxist Revolutionary for Education
Juha Suoranta 18 Gramsci, Antonio (1891–1937): Culture and Education
Peter Mayo 19 Green Marxism
Simon Boxley 20 Guevara, Ernesto “Che” (1928–1967)
Peter McLaren and Lilia D. Monzó 21 Intersectionality: Scaling Intersectional Praxes
Gregory Martin and Benjamin “Benji” Chang 22 Lenin, Vladimir (1870–1924) and Education
Juha Suoranta and Robert FitzSimmons 23 Liberation Theology
Peter McLaren 24 Luxemburg, Rosa (1871–1919) and Education
Julia Damphouse and Sebastian Engelmann 25 Managerialism and Higher Education
Goran Puaca 26 Marxism and Education: [Closed] and … Open …
Glenn Rikowski 27 Marxism and Human Rights against Capitalism
Daniel Hedlund and Magnus Nilsson 28 Marxist Feminism and Education: Gender, Race, and Class
Sara Carpenter and Shahrzad Mojab 29 Middle Classes of the World
Göran Therborn 30 Neo-Liberalism and Revolution: Marxism for Emerging Critical Educators
Alpesh Maisuria 31 New Left, Anarchism and Education
Nick Stevenson 32 Palestine: Education in Mandate Palestine
Bernard Regan 33 Plebs League: Towards a Modern Plebs League
Colin Waugh 34 Postdigital Marxism
Petar Jandrić 35 Poverty: Class, Poverty and Neo-Liberalism
Terry Wrigley 36 Public Pedagogy
Mike Cole 37 Public University: The Political Economy of the Public University
David Harvie, Mariya Ivancheva and Robert Ovetz 38 Social Class: Education, Social Class and Marxist Theory
Dave Hill and Alpesh Maisuria 39 State and Private Capital: Education, State and Capital
Ravi Kumar and Rama Paul 40 World-Systems Critical Education
Tom G. Griffiths
Index
The book has been written to appeal to readers within the Marxism and education intellectual tradition, and also those who are curious newcomers, as well as critics.