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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 …
"Contextualizing The 'Theses On Socialist Education:' Lessons For Revolutionary Pedagogy Today" In Socialist Education In Korea: Selected Works Of Kim Il-Sung, Derek R. Ford, Curry Malott
"Contextualizing The 'Theses On Socialist Education:' Lessons For Revolutionary Pedagogy Today" In Socialist Education In Korea: Selected Works Of Kim Il-Sung, Derek R. Ford, Curry Malott
Education Studies Faculty publications
From Publisher: Publishing the selected works of Kim Il-Sung on education is a controversial move in the United States. In fact, there’s almost a proportional relationship between the demonization of the DPRK and the level of ignorance one has about the state, the country, its government, its people and society, and its history. This is particularly striking given the recent interest in decolonial and anti-colonial education, in socialist and communist educational methods, and in socialism and communism more generally. Given these recent activist and scholarly interests, Riley Park and Cambria York’s new collection, Socialist Education in Korea, is a welcome …
Teaching In The Age Of Covid-19—1 Year Later, Sahar D. Sattarzadeh
Teaching In The Age Of Covid-19—1 Year Later, Sahar D. Sattarzadeh
Education Studies Faculty publications
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Pedagogically Reclaiming Marx’S Politics In The Postdigital Age: Social Formations And Althusserian Pedagogical Gestures, Derek R. Ford
Pedagogically Reclaiming Marx’S Politics In The Postdigital Age: Social Formations And Althusserian Pedagogical Gestures, Derek R. Ford
Education Studies Faculty publications
This paper builds on marxist postdigital literature by first by clarifying what a ‘mode of production’ is, what the capitalist mode of production is, and how, why, and on what technological foundations it emerged. This leads into a discussion of these technological foundations and their relationship to production, knowledge, research, and subjectivity; in other words, the ‘general intellect’. At this point I move from discussing modes of production to social formations or socio-economic formations, and I show why social formations are more helpful to conceptualize the political and pedagogical struggle in the era of postdigital capitalism (and any capitalism) as …
Teaching In The Age Of Covid-19, Derek R. Ford
Teaching In The Age Of Covid-19, Derek R. Ford
Education Studies Faculty publications
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Teaching In The Age Of Covid-19, Sahar D. Sattarzadeh
Teaching In The Age Of Covid-19, Sahar D. Sattarzadeh
Education Studies Faculty publications
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On The Freedom To Be Opaque Monsters: Communist Pedagogy, Aesthetics, And The Sublime, Derek Ford
On The Freedom To Be Opaque Monsters: Communist Pedagogy, Aesthetics, And The Sublime, Derek Ford
Education Studies Faculty publications
As social movements amplify across the globe, activists and researchers are increasingly interested in the pedagogies of revolutionary transformation. To provide a rich resource for political educators and organizers, this paper formulates what we call an (un)communicative communist pedagogy that is oriented against communicative capitalism. We show that there is a taut connection between capitalism and democracy that consists of a shared logic, pedagogy, and aesthetic that revolves around communication, inclusion, and transparency. Without grasping this aesthetic connection, anti-capitalist struggles are reduced to liberal reforms that end up reinforcing and deepening capitalist production relations. To break out of this trap, …
A Pedagogy For Space: Teaching, Learning, And Studying In The Baltimore Rebellion, Derek R. Ford
A Pedagogy For Space: Teaching, Learning, And Studying In The Baltimore Rebellion, Derek R. Ford
Education Studies Faculty publications
While most educational literature on space has tended to ask what spatial studies can offer education, this article works primarily to educationalize theories of space. It does so by homing in on Henri Lefebvre’s theorization of the production of space as a potentially revolutionary activity. After spending some time situating Lefebvre’s historical and theoretical analysis, it takes his understanding of the production of space as an educational problematic, and in turn seeks to develop a spatial educational theory and a pedagogy for space, the latter being the mobilization of the former. In particular, I propose to augment Lefebvre’s spatial triad …