Education and the Reproduction of Capital: Neoliberal Knowledge and Counterstrategies

by R. Kumar (Editor)

Overview

A reflection on the specific context of neoliberal capitalism and it's impact on education. The chapters establish the intersectionality of state, capital and education and engage with possibilities of transcending the onslaught of capital in different geographical locations – from the Northern Hemisphere to the Southern Hemisphere.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349435135
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date:	07/25/2012
Series:	Marxism and Education
Edition description:	1st ed. 2012
Pages:	251
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

RAVI KUMAR is an Associate Professor of Sociology at South Asian University, India.

Table of Contents

Neoliberal Education and Imagining Strategies of Resistance: An Introduction; R.Kumar Social Class and Rebellion: The Role of Knowledge Production in Capitalist Society; C.S.Malott How Shall We Live as Lambs Among Wolves? Reason–Passion–Power and Organization: What to Do?; R.Gibson Class, Neoliberal Capitalism in Crisis, and the Resistant and Transformative Role of Education and Knowledge Workers; D.Hill Rethinking Schools and Society/Combating Neoliberal Globalization; D.Hursh Education Toward War; F.Agostinone-Wilson Neoliberal Politics Impacting Education: Imagining Possibilities of Resistance; R.Kumar The Struggle and its Generalization: The Case of the University; P.Chandra Learning Truth Telling: Beyond Neo-liberal Education; Savyasaachi Twenty- First- Century Socialism and Education in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela: an Alternative to the Neoliberal Model; M.Cole Being, Becoming and Breaking-Free: Peter McLaren and the Pedagogy of Liberation: Peter McLaren in Conversation with Ravi Kumar

Editorial Reviews

"Kumar's Education and the Reproduction of Capital is a welcome addition to the literature because it demonstrates the destructive impact of neoliberalism in different localities across the globe and it does so with robust analyses from a number of well-known scholars who imagine strategies of resistance, analyze processes of knowledge production and the role of knowledge workers, and fundamentally rethink the role of schools in the current capitalist crisis." - Michael A. Peters, Professor Emeritus, University of Illinois; professor, Policy, Cultural & Social Studies in Education, University of Waikato

"This book does not shy away from the necessary task of putting increased pressure on the knowledge and practices that help to sustain capitalism. Depicting capitalist class practices and their effects across a range of sites in vivid terms and examining them from the vantage points of a diverse array of critical traditions, it makes an important contribution to promoting the wide discussion and fresh analyses that are urgent to the pedagogical work of clarifying the world's consciousness regarding the unsustainability of capitalism." - Deborah Kelsh, The College of Saint Rose

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