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Revolutionary Learning explores the Marxist and feminist theorisation of dialectics, praxis and consciousness in education and learning. Moving beyond previous books on Marxism and education, which tend to focus on the reproductive nature of educational institutions, this groundbreaking text draws upon work by leading feminist, anti-racist and anti-colonial scholars in its exploration of the key philosophical concepts that build the Marxist analysis of learning. Alongside chapters dealing with adult education, institutional ethnography and the promotion of civic engagement, the authors also reassess the contributions of Marx, Gramsci and Freire to educational theory. Adopting an innovative and explicitly feminist perspective, they relocate these theorists' Marxist analyses of education into a more complex relation to patriarchal and imperialist capitalism. With significant implications for critical education scholarship, research and practice, Revolutionary Learning's importance lies not only in its contribution to theory, but its extension into pedagogical practice with special attention to how a revolutionary critique of ideology is taken up by educators in their daily work.

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What is critical about critical education? ask Carpenter and Mojab in this tremendously insightful, compelling book which promises to revolutionize thinking around adult learning and education. But more than this, Revolutionary Learning offers readers carefully-crafted, sharpened tools of social analysis with which to dissect, theorize, resist and transform capitalist social relations, challenging us to re-imagine horizons of possibility that can lead to genuine human emancipation. -- Aziz Choudry, Associate Professor, Department of Integrated Studies in Education, McGill University Sara Carpenter and Shahrzad Mojab's Revolutionary Learning addresses the totality of capitalist social relations through a theoretical and historical lens, offering a fresh analysis of abstraction, ideology and critical consciousness in ways that could infuse concepts of pedagogy to advance critical education and Marxist feminist revolutionary praxis. The brilliant exposition of 'learning by dispossession' speaks to the occluded co-constitution of contemporary geopolitical realities. -- Kumkum Sangari, William F. Vilas Research Professor of English and the Humanities, Department of English, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

What is critical about critical education? ask Carpenter and Mojab in this tremendously insightful, compelling book which promises to revolutionize thinking around adult learning and education. But more than this, Revolutionary Learning offers readers carefully-crafted, sharpened tools of social analysis with which to dissect, theorize, resist and transform capitalist social relations, challenging us to re-imagine horizons of possibility that can lead to genuine human emancipation. -- Aziz Choudry, Associate Professor, Department of Integrated Studies in Education, McGill University

'Superbly written and invites the reader into an engaging exchange on the most important theoretical development in our field today' -- John Holst, Associate Professor, Leadership, Policy and Administration, University of St Thomas 'Addresses the totality of capitalist social relations through a theoretical and historical lens, offering a fresh analysis of abstraction, ideology and critical consciousness' -- Kumkum Sangari, William F. Vilas Research Professor of English and the Humanities, Department of English, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee 'A tremendously insightful, compelling book which promises to revolutionise thinking around adult learning and education' -- Aziz Choudry, Associate Professor, Department of Integrated Studies in Education, McGill University

Author Information

Sara Carpenter is Assistant Professor in Educational Policy Studies at the University of Alberta and has worked as an adult educator in both community organisations and higher education. Her research interests are informed by her work with refugee and migrant populations as well as feminist, anti-poverty, and immigrant rights campaigns. She is the co-author of Revolutionary Learning (Pluto, 2017) and co-editor of Educating from Marx (Palgrave MacMillan, 2010). Shahrzad Mojab is Professor of Adult Education and Women's Studies at OISE/University of Toronto. She is the co-author of Revolutionary Learning (Pluto, 2017), and editor of Marxism and Feminism (Zed, 2015), War, Violence, and Learning (Routledge, 2012) and Educating from Marx: Race, Gender and Learning (Palgrave MacMillan, 2010).

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