| Communist Study: Education for the Commons Contributor(s): Ford, Derek R. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1498532446 ISBN-13: 9781498532440 Publisher: Lexington Books OUR PRICE: $101.97 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Education | Teaching Methods & Materials - General |
| Dewey: 370.12 |
| LCCN: 2016042888 |
| Series: Youth Culture and Pedagogy in the Twenty-First Century |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.9" W x 9.1" (0.90 lbs) 170 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Contending that radical politics needs educational theory, Communist Study: Education for the Commons poses 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 figurality? How can pedagogy accommodate ambiguity while remaining faithful to the communist project? In answering these questions, educational theorist Derek R. Ford develops a pedagogical constellation that radically opens up what education is and what it can mean for revolutionary struggle. To chart this constellation, Ford takes the reader on a journey that traverses disciplinary and ideological boundaries, innovatively reading theorists as diverse as Agamben, Marx, Lyotard, Butler, and Lenin. Demonstrating that learning is the educational logic that underpins capitalism and democracy, Ford articulates a theory of communist study as an alternative and oppositional logic. Poetic, performative, and provocative, this theory of study is oriented toward what Ford calls "the sublime feeling of being-in-common," which, as he insists, is always a commonness against. |
