Gramscian Critical Pedagogy: 1 (Radical Thinkers)

Gramscian Critical Pedagogy positions Antonio Gramscis thought both in and outside of the institutional context of education. This book connects Gramsci to various pedagogies: critical activist and political-party based by exploring the various organizational contexts: anarchist syndicalist socialist and communist that inform Gramscis expansive experiences with pedagogy. Gramscian Critical Pedagogydoes not assume but explores the many ways that Gramscis thought speaks to the social and institutional limitations in capitalism. Finally this book offers a methodology to embed students in the political project of critical pedagogy so that they may when they leave the classroom orient themselves in the world through collective action. Rather than teach a social justice orientation Gramscian Critical Pedagogyoffers a rudimentary framework to instill in the conscious lives of a generation the necessity of the struggle against a hegemony that supports or normalizes economic exploitation sexism homo- and Trans-phobia and racism.