Class in Education: Knowledge, Pedagogy, Subjectivity

ISBN-13: 9780415450270 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 224 str.

Deborah Kelsh;Dave Hill;Sheila Macrine

Opis

Access to economic resources is becoming the defining issue of the twenty-first century. Inequity is stark and pervasive. Consequently, from the daily papers to the academic presses, the once marginalized concept of "class" is gaining widespread attention. Class in Education argues that the "class" of much contemporary social and educational theory does not go far enough in its analyses. The authors suggest that, as a result, it cannot enable the production of knowledges, pedagogies, and subjectivities needed to change inequitable access to economic resources and the many socio-cultural inequities that this fosters.

In many contemporary articulations the term "class" shies away from explaining that it is the production relations of capitalism that causes economic inequity and therefore must be changed. Instead, it embraces description of the various cultural attributes of groups and individuals, often in order to "update" them and thereby enhance the individual’s capacity to compete for limited economic resources. Class in Education intervenes in this trend, which quietly sustains and extends the tenets of neoliberalism into the daily lives of teachers and students, chief among which is the premise that a society based on competition among individuals is not only singularly necessary but also pre-eminently natural. This volume of essays argues for the necessity and effectiveness of a materialist rather than a culturalist understanding of class.

Across a range of issues – among them racism, educational policy, the social studies curriculum, reading practices – the essays in Class in Education argue for and demonstrate in their arguments that a materialist understanding of class has the explanatory power to analyze the structure of owning and power in social relations, and therefore to point to ways to abolish exploitation of companion beings and restructure society in a more egalitarian way.

Spis treści

@contents: Selected Contents: Foreword  Introduction  1. Cultureclass  2. Hypohumanities  3. Persistent Inequities, Obfuscating Explanations: Reinforcing the Lost Centrality of Class in Indian Educational Debates  4. Class, "Race" and State in Post-Apartheid Education  5. Racism and Islamophobia in post 7/7 Britain: Critical Race Theory, (Xeno-) Racialization, Empire and Education: A Marxist Analysis  6. Marxism, Critical Realism and Class: Implications for a Socialist Pedagogy  7. Globalization, Class, and the Social Studies Curriculum  8. Class: The Base of All Reading  Afterword 

O autorze

Deborah Kelsh is an Associate Professor in the Department of Teacher Education at The College of Saint Rose in Albany, New York, US.

Dave Hill is Professor of Education Policy at the University of Northampton, UK.

Sheila Macrine is an Associate Professor in the Curriculum and Teaching Department at Montclair State University in New Jersey, US.