Renewing Dialogues in Marxism and Education

Part I. Introduction and Overview: Marxism and Education—Renewing the Dialogues

1. Introduction and Overview: Marxism and Education—Renewing the Dialogues
Anthony Green, Glenn Rikowski

2. Marxism, Education, and Dialogue
Anthony Green

Part II. Neoliberalism, Globalization, Crises, and Education in the Transitional Epochs

3. Toward a Political Economy of Education in the Transitional Period
Geraldine Thorpe, Pat Brady

4. The Role of Education in Capital Crisis Resolution
Helen Raduntz

5. What Neoliberal Global and National Capitals Are Doing to Education Workers and to Equality—Some Implications for Social Class Analysis
Dave Hill

6. Neoliberalism and Education: A Marxist Critique of New Labour’s Five-Year Strategy for Education
Mike Cole

Part III. Discourse, Postmodernism, and Poststructuralism

7. Indecision, Social Justice, and Social Change: A Dialogue on Marxism, Postmodernism, and Education
Elizabeth Atkinson, Mike Cole

8. Textual Strategies of Representation and Legitimation in New Labour Policy Discourse
Jane Mulderrig

9. Marx, Education, and the Possibilities of a Fairer World: Reviving Radical Political Economy through Foucault
Mark Olssen, Michael A. Peters

Part IV. Politics, Divisions, and Struggle in Teaching, Learning, and Education Policy

10. The Feminist Standpoint and the Trouble with “Informal Learning”: A Way Forward for Marxist-Feminist Educational Research
Rachel Gorman

11. Myths of Mentoring: Developing a Marxist-Feminist Critique
Helen Colley

12. Popular Press, Visible Value: How Debates on Exams and Student Debt Have Unmasked the Commodity Relations of the “Learning Age”
Paul Warmington

Part V. Labor and Commodification in Education: Theory, Practice, and Critique

13. Academic Labor: Producing Value and Producing Struggles
David Harvie

14. Marxist Political Praxis: Class Notes on Academic Activism in the Corporate University
Gregory Martin

15. The Making of Humanity: The Pivotal Role of Dialectical Thinking in Humanization and the Concomitant Struggle for Self and Social Transformation
Paula Allman

Keywords: Social Sciences, Education Policy, Organic Chemistry, Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology, Sociology of Education, Sociology of Education, Ethnicity Studies