Education for the Commons
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Köp båda 2 för 1840 krFords Communist Study is insightful, thought-provoking, and therapeutic while unsettling and challenging to critical conventions. [T]he challenging nature of the book is not accidental but rather it is intentional. As Ford notes, There is a resulting tension that runs through the book, a tension that I hope readers find both productive and troubling (p. 7). This book bridges the oft intellectual divide, bringing postmodernism into relation with Marxism and political economy, to structure the edifice of a communist pedagogy. In doing so, Ford establishes himself as a premier educational and political theorist. * Discourse * [S]uccinct yet dense. . . . Fords thinking on communist study is open, potential, and original in pointing out a new possibility of thinking itself. * Studies in Philosophy and Education * Derek R. Fords Communist Study: Education for the Commons advances communist pedagogy. * International Critical Thought * This book clearly establishes Ford as one of the boldest and most insightful emerging political and educational theorists. Ford moves deftly and daringly between disparate thinkers and concepts, weaving together philosophy, history, and educational theory in creative, profound, and lucid ways. He identifies and answers the most pressing political question of our moment: What does it mean to study like a communist? In doing so, he develops a groundbreaking communist theory of study, a praxis that is as provocative as it is practical. -- Peter McLaren, Distinguished Professor in Critical Studies, Chapman University Ford understands that revolutions dont organize themselves, nor do they evolve naturally and painlessly from the social and economic system destroying the world and crushing humanity today; revolutions are not a walk in the park nor do they arrive on the wings of aspiration alone. This surprising book extends that battle based on the Marxist principle that its not enough to interpret the worldThe point . . . is to change it. It maps the treacherous, hopeful territory between the pessimism of the head and the optimism of the heart. Communist Study is a necessary book. -- Bill Ayers, emeritus, University of Illinois at Chicago Communist Study should be required of all theorists and activists concerned with radical political transformation. With brilliance and courage, Derek R. Ford dismantles dogma old and new, pressing us to forge the commonness that can make us a political force. -- Jodi Dean, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Derek R. Ford is assistant professor of education studies at DePauw University.
Contents Foreword. Toward a Communist Philosophy of Education: Reflections on Method and Methodology (Tyson E. Lewis) Acknowledgements Introduction: A partisan theory of study Part one: Subject Chapter 1: Subject formation Chapter 2: Immaterial subjects (and the fetish thereof) Part two: Study Chapter 3: Studying whatever Chapter 4: The secret struggle Chapter 5: The terror of democracy Chapter 6: Figure Part three: Struggle Chapter 7: In praise of tanks Chapter 8: Party Conclusion: Architectures of resistance Afterword: Its a Wednesday: To be a problem-with, to be a problem-for (Ailish Hopper) Bibliography Index About the author