Education
Pushing back the veil of ignorance hindering humanity and it grasp of its environment--natural, social, political, spiritual--is a goal of educators and teachers from ancient times to the present. Here is where we present the various methods of learning, how schools are best organized, and what kind of values and skills we want to pass on to a younger generation.
Marxism and the Philosophy of Education
16 Video Lectures by Stephen Hicks, Rockford College
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Critique of the Obama-Duncan Education Team
Two-part Democracy Now video with Michael Klonsky, professor of education and longtime school reform activist in Chicago, and Deborah Meier, a well-known teacher, writer and public advocate.
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Paulo Freire - Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Video lecture in four parts by Jason J Campbell, Nova Southeastern University in Florida
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Why Class Matters in Higher Education
Sherry Linkon, co-director of the Center for Working Class Studies at Youngstown State University, addresses the challenge of defining "working class," how the field of working-class studies is integrating multiple disciplines and connecting academic work with activism, and how the field is working to draw attention to the perspectives and experiences of working-class students.
Access HereSchool Reform: Chicago's Austin Polytech
A 5-minute PBS News Show on a new public school in a poor, all-Black Chicago neighborhood, with unique partnerships related to high-tech manufacturing and community empowerment
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In this 20-minute discussion starter video, Noam Chomsky explores the purpose of education, impact of technology, whether education should be perceived as a cost or an investment and the value of standardised assessment. Presented at the Learning Without Frontiers Conference – Jan 25th 2012- London. ACCESS HERE
Jonathan Kozol and Mr. Rogers. Exploring Teaching Children to Become Good Citizens. A one-hour dialogue on video.
How Amílcar Cabral Shaped Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy
World-renowned critical educator Paulo Freire, in a 1985 presentation about his experiences in liberated Guinea-Bissau as a sort of militant consultant, concludes that Cabral, along with Ché Guevara, represent “two of the greatest expressions of the 20th century”. Freire describes Cabral as “a very good Marxist, who undertook an African reading of Marx”. Cabral, for Freire, “fully lived the subjectivity of the struggle. For that reason, he theorised” as he led. This article explain their confluence of views on education.
EARLY SOVIET PEDAGOGY: VYGOTSKY'S 'MIND IN SOCIETY'
Lev Semyonovich Vygotsky (1896 – 1934) was a Soviet Belarusian psychologist, the founder of a theory of human cultural and biosocial development commonly referred to as cultural-historical psychology, and leader of the Vygotsky Circle. He proposed a theory of the development of higher cognitive functions in children that saw the emergence of the reasoning as emerging through practical activity in a social environment. Vygotsky also posited a concept of the Zone of Proximal Development, often understood to refer to the way in which the acquisition of new knowledge is dependent on previous learning, as well as the availability of instruction. During his lifetime Vygotsky's theories were controversial within the Soviet Union. The full text of his 'Mind in Society' is included HERE. A book of essays, 'Vygotsky and Marx: Toward a Marxist Psychology' is HERE