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Pushing back the veil of ignorance hindering humanity and it grasp of its environment–natural, social, political, spiritual–is a goal of educators and teachers from ancient times to the present. Here is where we present the various methods of learning, how schools are best organized, and what kind of values and skills we want to pass on to a younger generation.
Marxism and the Philosophy of Education
16 Video Lectures by Stephen Hicks, Rockford College
The State of U.S Education
Bill Ayers and Kathleen Kemp: Three-part video lectures at Florida State University
Critique of the Obama-Duncan Education Team
Two-part Democracy Now video with Michael Klonsky, professor of education and longtime school reform activist in Chicago, and Deborah Meier, a well-known teacher, writer, and public advocate. Access Here
Paulo Freire – Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Video lecture in four parts by Jason J Campbell, Nova Southeastern University in Florida
Why Class Matters in Higher Education
Sherry Linkon, co-director of the Center for Working Class Studies at Youngstown State University, addresses the challenge of defining “working class,” how the field of working-class studies is integrating multiple disciplines and connecting academic work with activism, and how the field is working to draw attention to the perspectives and experiences of working-class students.
School Reform: Chicago’s Austin Polytech
A 5-minute PBS News Show on a new public school in a poor, all-Black Chicago neighborhood, with unique partnerships related to high-tech manufacturing and community empowerment
TWO LINES ON EDUCATION: CRITICAL INQUIRY vs. INDOCTRINATION FOR CONSENT & OBEDIENCE
In this 20-minute discussion starter video, Noam Chomsky explores the purpose of education, the impact of technology, whether education should be perceived as a cost or an investment, and the value of standardized assessment. Presented at the Learning Without Frontiers Conference – Jan 25th, 2012- London.
IN PRAISE OF DEWEY An Aeon essay by Nicholas Tampio, an associate professor of political science at Fordham University in New York on the impact of John Dewey’s ‘Democracy and Education.’ Tampio is interested in the history of political thought, contemporary political theory, and education policy. He is currently working on his third book on democracy and national education standards.
Download Dewey’s book HERE
Jonathan Kozol and Mr. Rogers. Exploring Teaching Children to Become Good Citizens. A one-hour dialogue on video.
How Amílcar Cabral Shaped Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy
World-renowned critical educator Paulo Freire, in a 1985 presentation about his experiences in liberated Guinea-Bissau as a sort of militant consultant, concludes that Cabral, along with Ché Guevara, represent “two of the greatest expressions of the 20th century.” Freire describes Cabral as “a very good Marxist, who undertook an African reading of Marx”. Cabral, for Freire, “fully lived the subjectivity of the struggle. For that reason, he theorized” as he led. This article explains their confluence of views on education.
EARLY SOVIET PEDAGOGY: VYGOTSKY’S ‘MIND IN SOCIETY.’
Lev Semyonovich Vygotsky (1896 – 1934) was a Soviet Belarusian psychologist, the founder of a theory of human cultural and biosocial development commonly referred to as cultural-historical psychology, and leader of the Vygotsky Circle. He proposed a theory of the development of higher cognitive functions in children that saw the emergence of their reasoning as emerging through practical activity in a social environment. Vygotsky also posited a concept of the Zone of Proximal Development, often understood to refer to how the acquisition of new knowledge depends on previous learning and the availability of instruction. During his lifetime, Vygotsky’s theories were controversial within the Soviet Union. A book of essays, ‘Vygotsky and Marx: Toward a Marxist Psychology’ is HERE.
ARCHIVE: Marxist Classics on Education