Education

Education

"This crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism...I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy, accompanied by an educational system which would be oriented toward social goals."

Thou Shalt Teach Revolution
Thursday, 07 March 2019 17:11

Thou Shalt Teach Revolution

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Jane Rosen writes about revolutionary children’s literature, based on the recent book she co-edited with Kimberley Reynolds and Michael Rosen, Reading and Rebellion: an Anthology of Radical Writing for Children, 1900-1960 Socialists in Britain, and of course elsewhere, have always looked for ways to provide children of the movement with…
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Don't Shoot Your Class!
Thursday, 07 March 2019 15:45

Don't Shoot Your Class!

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Jane Rosen introduces ‘Don’t Shoot Your Class!’, by Tom Anderson, first published in The Revolution, June 1918. It is extracted from Reading and Rebellion, an Anthology of Radical Writing for Children, 1900-1960.Though this piece is unsigned, the bound copy of The Revolution held by the Marx Memorial Library in London…
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We are called to speak for the weak: A manifesto for critical pedagogy
K2_PUBLISHED_ON Friday, 31 March 2017 14:19

We are called to speak for the weak: A manifesto for critical pedagogy

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Henry Giroux, a leading exponent of critical pedagogy, writes incisively on the damage being wrought by school ‘reform’ in the United States, which is aimed at destroying any viable understanding of the connection between schooling and educating critically engaged citizens. The fight to challenge this neoliberal assault on their education…
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Outdoor Ghost Lab at the Utopia Festival, Somerset House, London, 2016
Monday, 20 March 2017 20:50

Social haunting in the Brexit coalfields

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Dr Geoff Bright introduces a fascinating arts-based educational project, concerned with remembering, re-imagining and re-enacting alternative community futures in the abandoned, de-industrialised pit communities in the North of England. Over this last three years I’ve enjoyed bringing together a team of academics, artists, community trade unionists and activists in what…
Ghost labs Unite Community Miners' Strike 1984 Brexit
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Education, Culture and Capitalism
Saturday, 04 March 2017 19:53

Education, Culture and Capitalism

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Chris Guiton presents a foundation essay for the education section, sketching out some of the links between education, culture and capitalism. The purpose of this introductory article is to sketch out the background to some issues around links between education and the general ‘cultural struggle’ which Culture Matters is aiming…
Functionalism John Dewey Emile Durkheim Karl Marx Paulo Freire
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