Class in Education

<p>In contemporary pedagogy, "class" has become one nomadic sign among others: it has no referent but only contingent allusions to similarly traveling signs. Class, that is, no longer explains social conflicts and antagonisms rooted in social divisions of labor, but instead portrays a cultural carnival of lifestyles, consumptions, tastes, prestige and desire, or obscures social conflicts through technicist accounts of incomes and jobs. </p><p><em>Class in Education</em> brings back class as a materialist analysis of social inequalities originating at the point of production and reproduced in all cultural practices. Addressing a wide range of issues – from the interpretive logic of the new humanities to racism to reading, school-level curricula to educational policy – the contributors focus on the effects that the different understandings of class have on various sites of pedagogy and open up new spaces for a materialist pedagogy and critical education in the times of globalization and the regimes of the digital.</p> <p>@contents: <strong>Selected Contents</strong>: Foreword Introduction 1. Cultureclass 2. Hypohumanities 3. Persistent Inequities, Obfuscating Explanations: Reinforcing the Lost Centrality of Class in Indian Educational Debates 4. Class, "Race" and State in Post-Apartheid Education 5. Racism and Islamophobia in post 7/7 Britain: Critical Race Theory, (Xeno-) Racialization, Empire and Education: A Marxist Analysis 6. Marxism, Critical Realism and Class: Implications for a Socialist Pedagogy 7. Globalization, Class, and the Social Studies Curriculum 8. Class: The Base of All Reading Afterword </p>