Renewing Dialogues In Marxism And Education: Openings

RENEWING DIALOGUES IN MARXISM AND EDUCATION Marxism and Education This series assumes the ongoing relevance of Marx’s contributions to critical social analysis and aims to encourage continuation of the development of the legacy of Marxist traditions in and for education. The remit for the substantive focus of scholarship and analysis appearing in the series extends from the global to the local in relation to dynamics of capitalism and encompasses historical and contemporary developments in political economy of education as well as forms of critique and resistances to capitalist social relations. The series announces a new beginning and proceeds in a spirit of openness and dialogue within and between Marxism and education, and between Marxism and its various critics. The essential feature of the work of the series is that Marxism and Marxist frameworks are to be taken seriously, not as formulaic knowledge and unassailable methodology but critically as inspirational resources for renewal of research and understanding, and as support for action in and upon structures and processes of education and their relations to society. The series is dedicated to the realization of positive human potentialities as education and thus, with Marx, to our education as educators. Renewing Dialogues in Marxism and Education: Openings Edited by Anthony Green, Glenn Rikowski, and Helen Raduntz Renewing Dialogues in Marxism and Education Openings Edited by Anthony Green, Glenn Rikowski, and Helen Raduntz RENEWING DIALOGUES IN MARXISM AND EDUCATION Copyright © Anthony Green, Glenn Rikowski, and Helen Raduntz, 2007. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews. First published in 2007 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN™ 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010 and Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, England RG21 6XS Companies and representatives throughout the world. PALGRAVE MACMILLAN is the global academic imprint of the Palgrave Macmillan division of St. Martin’s Press, LLC and of Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. Macmillan® is a registered trademark in the United States, United Kingdom and other countries. Palgrave is a registered trademark in the European Union and other countries. ISBN-13: 978–1–4039–7496–9 ISBN-10: 1–4039–7496–9 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available from the Library of Congress. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Design by Newgen Imaging Systems (P) Ltd., Chennai, India. First edition: December 2007 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Printed in the United States of America. After Marx, to the Educators . . . and to our education . . . This page intentionally left blank Contents ix Acknowledgments Part I Introduction and Overview: Marxism and Education—Renewing the Dialogues Introduction and Overview: Marxism and Education—Renewing the Dialogues Anthony Green and Glenn Rikowski 1 Marxism, Education, and Dialogue Anthony Green 3 11 Part II Neoliberalism, Globalization, Crises, and Education in the Transitional Epochs 2 Toward a Political Economy of Education in the Transitional Period Geraldine Thorpe and Pat Brady 3 The Role of Education in Capital Crisis Resolution Helen Raduntz 4 What Neoliberal Global and National Capitals Are Doing to Education Workers and to Equality—Some Implications for Social Class Analysis Dave Hill 5 Neoliberalism and Education: A Marxist Critique of New Labour’s Five-Year Strategy for Education Mike Cole Part III 35 57 71 103 Discourse, Postmodernism, and Poststructuralism