The Palgrave International Handbook of Marxism and Education

“The vital question for Marxism and Education today is how to learn and educate hope radically. This Handbook provides a guide in this direction.”

— Ana Cecilia Dinerstein, Reader in Sociology, University of Bath, UK

“One of the most comprehensive, engaging, and in-depth analyses of the challenges facing critical pedagogy that have ever appeared.”

— Peter Hudis, Professor of Humanities and Philosophy at Oakton Community College, USA

“The struggles of the workers and the oppressed for the socialization of knowledge…are central to the critical and active orientations discussed in the handbook.”

— Virgínia Fontes, Professor, Fluminense Federal University, Brazil

 The Palgrave International Handbook of Marxism and Education is an international and interdisciplinary volume, which provides a thorough and precise engagement with emergent developments in Marxist theory in both the global South and North. Drawing on the work of authoritative scholars and practitioners, the handbook explicitly shows how these developments enable a rich historical and material understanding of the full range of education sectors and contexts. The handbook proceeds in a spirit of openness and dialogue within and between various conceptions and traditions of Marxism and brings those conceptions into dialogue with their critics and other anti-capitalist traditions. As such, it contributes to the development of Marxist analyses that push beyond established limits, by engaging with fresh perspectives and views that disrupt established perspectives. 

Richard Hall is Professor of Education and Technology at De Montfort University, UK, and an Advance HE National Teaching Fellow.

Inny Accioly is Professor of Education at the Fluminense Federal University, Brazil. She develops projects focused on connecting university and grassroots movements in LatinAmerica, relating environmental education, anti-racist education, unionism, and indigenous and traditional knowledge.

Krystian Szadkowski is a researcher at the Scholarly Communication Research Group of Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland. His interests cover political economy and transformations of higher education systems in Central and Eastern Europe, as well as the issues of the public and the common in higher education.