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Marxist thinking can offer a critical understanding of education in an international context. Jones tackles these issues from a variety of angles and perspectives, taking advantage of recent theoretical innovations in Marxist analysis as well as the personal experiences of educational practitioners with Marxist commitments. With a specific focus on pedagogical practices as cultural practices, this book combines detailed case studies of local situations with broad, critical overviews of global development and challenges.

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PART I: MARXISM AND CULTURE: EDUCATIONAL PERSPECTIVES Culture, Class and Education: a Reflective Essay; T.Wrigley Learning to Labour with Feeling: Class, Gender and Emotion in Childcare Education and Training; H.Colley ´For a People´s Clydebank´: Learning the Ethic of Solidarity Amidst the Wreckage of Neo-Liberalism in Contemporary Scotland; C.Collins PART II: MARXISM AND THE CULTURE OF EDUCATIONAL PRACTICE Learning the Feeling Rules: Exploring Hochschild´s Thesis on the Alienating Experience of Learning and Performing Emotional Labor; P.Brook Adult Education and the ´Matter´ of Consciousness in Marxist-Feminism; S.Carpenter & S.Mojab A Little Night Reading: Marx, Assessment and the Professional Doctorate in Education; V.Perselli PART III: MARXISM AND EDUCATION: ADVANCING THEORY From Relational Ontology to a Transformative Activist Stance on Development and Learning: Expanding Vygotsky´s (CHAT) Project; A.Stetsenko Activity, Activity Theory and the Marxian Legacy; P.Jones Critical Pedagogy as Revolutionary Practice; P.McLaren

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"As faith in capitalism continues to wobble, as radical educators sense a new energy and interest in alternatives, this volume brings fresh, bracing perspectives to the struggle. Robust and nuanced new Marxist scholarship animates cases ranging from nursery teachers to Venezuela s education reforms, and offers invaluable, powerful critical tools for those seeking to rejuvenate dialogues in Marxism and education." - Tara Fenwick, Professor of Professional Education, University of Stirling"Congratulations to Peter E. Jones and the other contributors to this excellent volume - one that reflects the continuing value of Marxist thought in the field of educational research and that is also an admirable addition to the important project set in motion by Glenn Rikowskiand Anthony Green. All of us in the field of Marxist educational research and practice owe them and all those who carry on this projectour gratitude." - Paula Allman, author of Critical Education Against Global Capitalism: Karl Marx and Revolutionary Critical Education

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