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Xu, Kefei – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2022
Law is an important part of Althusser's thought. He profoundly criticized the mechanism of capitalist law from the perspective of 'reproduction.' First, the law cannot be separated from the relations of production. In order to maintain capitalist relations of production, the law covers up the exploitation in the process of capitalist production.…
Descriptors: Laws, Marxian Analysis, Criticism, Ideology
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Carlos Alberto Torres – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2024
The tone of this article is biographical and theoretical. Biographical, insofar as it concerns the author and his circumstances while also serving as a testimonial, probably partial and idiosyncratic, of the successes experienced by an entire generation of Argentineans in Diaspora. Although biographical, this is also a theoretical text that…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Educational Theories, Marxian Analysis, Biographies
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Murphy, Michael P. A. – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2020
Beginning in earnest in the late 1990s, educational researchers devoted increasing attention to the study of "active learning," leading to a robust literature on the topic in the scholarship of teaching and learning. Meanwhile, during largely the same period, political theorists discovered the radical philosophy of Giorgio Agamben, which…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Active Learning, Scholarship, Instruction
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Walton, Sean – Power and Education, 2021
The critical race theory concept of 'White supremacy' continues to be a major locus of disagreement between Critical Race Theorists and Marxists regarding both how it operates as a general descriptor of racial power dynamics in the Western world and for its explanatory power in accounting for the multiple forms in which racism manifests.…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Race, Marxian Analysis, Racial Bias
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Weiner, Eric J. – Policy Futures in Education, 2004
As workers throughout the globe struggle to gain control over the conditions in which they labor as well as the means by which capital is produced, the importance of understanding class struggle, class formation and class consciousness as they relate to education and schooling takes on a new urgency. In the early part of the twenty-first century,…
Descriptors: Social Class, Critical Theory, Consciousness Raising, Educational Theories