A Marxist Education

by Wayne Au

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In A Marxist Education: Learning to Change the World, professor and education activist Wayne Au traces both his own development as a Marxist educator, as well as the development of Marxist educational theory. Arguing that dialectical materialism is at the heart of Marxist theory, Au uses dialectics to not only analyse the relationship between capitalism and schools, but also to understand teaching, learning, and curriculum. In the process, A Marxist Education challenges the idea that Marxism is Eurocentric, reclaims noted educators such as Lev Vygotsky and Paulo Freire as being within the Marxist tradition, and integrates racial and feminist traditions into analyses of education, consciousness, and power.
  • ISBN10 1608469069
  • ISBN13 9781608469062
  • Publish Date 5 June 2018
  • Publish Status Active
  • Imprint Haymarket Books
  • Format eBook
  • Pages 312
  • Language English