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Encountering Education: Elements For A Marxist Pedagogy, Derek R. Ford
Encountering Education: Elements For A Marxist Pedagogy, Derek R. Ford
Education Studies Faculty publications
In Encountering Education, organizer and political and educational theorist Derek R. Ford develops new marxist pedagogical elements to advance the class struggle. Ford argues that the entire marxist project of establishing the dictatorship of the proletariat and creating a classless society entails an educational praxis that builds up disinterpellative encounters. Through an inventive reading of Marx, Althusser, Glissant, and others, they advance two dialectical pedagogical processes of inquiry and presentation, developing both--and the political relations between the two--through a range of theorists and situations. Encountering Education both illuminates the historical, political, spatial, technological, and sonic conditions of our struggle …
Pedagogy And Politics, Confrontational Negotiations: A Response To Zhao, Derek R. Ford
Pedagogy And Politics, Confrontational Negotiations: A Response To Zhao, Derek R. Ford
Education Studies Faculty publications
In her review of my book, Weili Zhao sheds a new light on what it means to study like a communist, particularly by focusing on the concept of the encounter and the dao movement. In this response, I build on her insights by proposing that the binary and the planar be heterogeneously blocked together. Rather than critical pedagogy, critical education, liberal education, and postmodern education, we need to see pedagogy and politics as hanging together in a confrontational negotiation.