Educational Policy and the Socialist Imagination: Revolutionary Citizenship as a Pedagogy of Resistance

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  • PMPeter McLaren
    Peter McLaren
  • RFRamin Farahmandpur
    Ramin Farahmandpur
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Abstract
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."

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