Educational Policy and the Socialist Imagination

Revolutionary Citizenship as a Pedagogy of Resistance

Bibliographic Data

ID23140880
AuthorsPeter Mclaren (0000-0001-5510-9896), Ramin Farahmandpur
Year2001
Volume15
Issue3
Pages343-378
Publication date2001-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEducational Policy (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0895-9048 • E-ISSN: 1552-3896
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0895904801015003002
OpenAlexW2042939221
LanguageEN
Citations received7
References cited28

This article mounts a critique of neoliberal policy reforms from a Marxist perspective. Offering a spirited challenge to North American educators who see little if any merit in Marxist educational analysis, the authors maintain that a Marxist analysis of education worldwide is more urgent today than at any other time. The central argument is that Marxist analysis offers a powerful means of understanding and transforming the social injustices generic to neoliberal educational reform efforts in particular and capitalist education in general. The article sets the groundwork for a comprehensive approach to educational reform that directly challenges the value form of labor and posits a new model of what the authors call "revolutionary citizenship."

Argument (complex analysis) · Citizenship · Epistemology · Marxist philosophy · Neoliberalism (international relations) · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Resistance (ecology) · Social science · Sociology · Value (mathematics) · Critical and Liberation Pedagogy · Law · Political Economy and Marxism · Political theory and Gramsci