Communist Study - Education for the Commons (Hardcover, 2nd Edition)

In the second edition of this groundbreaking work, Derek R. Ford contends that radical politics needs educational theory, posing a series of educational questions pertinent to revolutionary movements: How can pedagogy bridge the gap between what is and what can be, while respecting the gap and its uncertainty and contingency? How can pedagogy accommodate ambiguity while remaining faithful to the communist project? In answering these questions, Ford develops a dyanmic pedagogical constellation that radically opens up what education is and what it can mean for revolutionary struggle. In charting this constellation, Ford takes the reader on a journey that traverses disciplinary boundaries, innovatively reading theorists as diverse as Lenin, Agamben, Marx, Lyotard, Althusser, and Butler. Demonstrating how learning underpins capitalism and democracy, Ford articulates a theory of communist study as an alternative and oppositional logic that, perhaps paradoxically, demands the revolutionary reclamation of testing. Poetic, performative, and provocative, communist study is oriented toward what Ford calls "the sublime feeling of being-in-common," which, as he insists, is always a commonness against.

General

Imprint:	Lexington Books-Fortress Academic
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Youth Culture and Pedagogy in the Twenty-First Century
Release date:	2022
Authors:	Derek R. Ford
Foreword by:	Tyson E. Lewis
Afterword by:	Ailish Hopper
Dimensions:	229 x 160 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	228
Edition:	2nd Edition
ISBN-13:	978-1-66690-100-9
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Education > Philosophy of education
LSN:	1-66690-100-8
Barcode:	9781666901009

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