History and Education

-With unapologetic commitment to a communist future - a world beyond predation and capitalist exploitation, beyond wage slavery and national oppression - Curry Stephenson Malott takes a hard look at the twentieth century, challenges and then upends the popular cliches and comforting euphemisms constantly spun by apologists caught in the thrall of capital. In History and Education Malott promotes a pedagogy that begins with truth-telling, and proceeds to courageously name this political moment as a time of increased immiseration and proletarianization on a global scale, and of imperialism in precipitous and fatal decline. Malott's 'communist pedagogy' offers a curriculum of struggle, a way forward through the wreckage all around us. "History and Education" will open your eyes, wake you up, and likely blow your mind.^ But even if you debate or dispute Malott's account, you'll be starting in the right place.- (Bill Ayers, former Distinguished Professor of Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago; Author of several books including "Teaching Toward Freedom" and "Public Enemy") -We live in exciting times - people are pouring into the streets to demand decent wages and a union, justice for victims of police brutality, an end to racist mass incarceration and so much more. Pedagogical theory helps organizers build these struggles into mass movements of millions. "History and Education" offers important insights for those who seek to change the world.- (Walter Smolarek, the Black Radical Organizing Collective (BROC)) -For decades the educational Left and critical pedagogues have run away from Marxism, socialism, and communism, all too often based on faulty understandings and falling prey to the deep-seated anti-communism in the academy.^ In "History and Education" Curry Stephenson Malott pushes back against this trend by offering us deeply Marxist thinking about the circulation of capital, socialist states, the connectivity of Marxist anti-capitalism, and a politics of race and education. In the process Malott points toward the role of education in challenging us all to become abolitionists of global capitalism.- (Wayne Au, Associate Professor in the School of Educational Studies at the University of Washington Bothell; Editor of the social justice teaching magazine "Rethinking Schools; " Co-editor of "Mapping Corporate Education Reform: Power and Policies Networks in the Neoliberal State") -Curry Stephenson Malott is a scholar committed to the global work

Year

2016

Language

English

Publisher

Lang AG International Academic Publishers, Peter

Editions

6

Pages

176

ISBN

9781433133985

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