TY  - BOOK
AU  - Curry Stephenson Malott
AU  - Derek R. Ford
PY  - 2015
CY  - New York, United States of America
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 2168-6432
SN  - 9781453916025
TI  - Marx, Capital, and Education
T2  - Towards a Critical Pedagogy of Becoming
DO  - 10.3726/978-1-4539-1602-5
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1051742
N2  - With the contradictions of capitalism heightening and intensifying, and with new social movements spreading across the globe, revolutionary transformation is once again on the agenda. For radicals, the most pressing question is: How can we transform ourselves and our world into something else, something just? In Marx, Capital, and Education, Curry Stephenson Malott and Derek R. Ford develop a «critical pedagogy of becoming» that is concerned with precisely this question. The authors boldly investigate the movement toward communism and the essential role that critical pedagogy can play in this transition. Performing a novel and educational reading of Karl Marx and radical theorists and activists, Malott and Ford present a critical understanding of the past and present, of the underlying logics and (often opaque) forces that determine the world-historical moment. Yet Malott and Ford are equally concerned with examining the specific ways in which we can teach, learn, study, and struggle ourselves beyond capitalism; how we can ultimately overthrow the existing order and institute a new mode of production and set of social relations. This incisive and timely book, penned by two militant teachers, organizers, and academics, reconfigures pedagogy and politics. Educators and organizers alike will find that it provides new ammunition in the struggle for the world that we deserve.
KW  - Communism, Social movement, Alternative economies, Anti-Capitalism, Left Wing
LA  - English
ER  -