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Right-to-Work and Lenin's Communist Pedagogy: An Introduction
(2015)
This essay examines so-called Right-to-Work (RTW) laws as a nearly seventy-year-old push by the capitalist state machine to not only dislodge restrictions on capital's ability to increase the rate of exploitation of labor ...
Neoliberalism and the Contradictions of Freedom: Ideology, Subjectivity, and Critical Pedagogy
(2015)
The idea of freedom is a central figure in the ideology of neoliberalism. In the contemporary context, neoliberals argue that rolling back regulations and the marketization of social life create more choices and thus more ...
Teachers as the Gravediggers of Neoliberalism: Promoting Dialectical Individualism from the Ruins of the Neoliberal State
(2015)
Neoliberalism will not die naturally, it must be killed through relentless criticism. However, as criticism of neoliberalism expands, scholars must not reify the term. Scholars must begin to disentangle the historical ...
Student as Value Based Product: Reconceptualizing the Subjective Nature of Education
(2015)
In this paper we consider how students are positioned in school classrooms and the effect positioning has on their ontological and social development. The creation of a powersanctioned objective reality, we argue, pervades ...