Teaching against Global Capitalism and the New Imperialism

A Critical Pedagogy

Peter McLaren, Ramin Farahmandpur

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Year: 2004
• eBook ISBN: 9781461666370
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Multicultural Education

This book will address a number of urgent themes in education today that include multiculturalism, the politics of whiteness, the globalization of capital, neoliberalism, postmodernism, imperialism, and current debates in Marxist social theory. The above themes will be linked to critical educational praxis, particularly to teaching activities within urban schools. Finally, the book will develop the basis for a wider political project directed at resisting and transforming economic exploitation, cultural homogenization, political repression, and gender inequality. Recent and widespread scholarly attention has been given to the unabated mercilessness of global capitalism. Little opposition exists as capital runs amok, unhampered and undisturbed by the tectonic upheaval that is occurring in the geopolitical landscape that has recently witnessed the collapse of the Soviet Union and the regimes of the Eastern Bloc. As we examine education policies within the context of economic globalization, we attempt to address the extent to which the pedagogy and politics of everyday life has fallen under the sway of what we identify as cultural and economic imperialism. Finally, the book raises a number of urgent questions: What are the current limitations to educational reform efforts among the educational left? What are some of the problems associated with certain developments within postmodern education? How can a return to Marxist theory and revolutionary politics revitalize the educational left at a time when capitalism appears to be unstoppable? What actions need to be taken in both local and global arenas to overcome the exploitation that the globalization of capital has wreaked upon the world?

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half title
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Foreword
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• 1 Reconsidering Marx in Post-Marxist Times: A Requiem for Postmodernism?
• 2 Freire, Marx, and the New Imperialism: Toward a Revolutionary Praxis
• 3 Critical Pedagogy, Postmodernism, and the Retreat from Class: Toward a Contraband Pedagogy
• 4 Critical Multiculturalism and the Globalization of Capital: Some Implications for a Politics of Resistance
• 5 Globalization, Class, and Multiculturalism: Fragments from a Red Notebook
• 6 Teaching against Globalization and the New Imperialism: Toward a Revolutionary Pedagogy
• 7 Educational Policy and the Socialist Imagination: Revolutionary Citizenship as a Pedagogy of Resistance
• 8 Teaching in and against the Empire: Critical Pedagogy as Revolutionary Praxis With Gregory Martin and Nathalia Jaramillo
• 9 Critical Revolutionary Pedagogy at Ground Zero: Renewing the Educational Left after September 11
• Afterword
• Index
• About the Authors