Educational Commons in Theory and Practice: Global Pedagogy and Politics

by Alexander J. Means (Editor), Derek R. Ford (Editor), Graham B. Slater (Editor)

Overview

In this volume, critical scholars and educational activists explore the intricate dynamics between the enclosure of global commons and radical visions of a common social future that breaks through the logics of privatization, ecological degradation, and dehumanizing social hierarchies in education. In its institutional and informal configurations alike, education has been identified as perhaps the key stake in this struggle. Insisting on the urgency of an education that breaks free of the bonds of enclosure, the essays included in this volume weave together bright threads of radical thought into a vivid tapestry illustrating a critical framework for enacting a global educational commons.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349939190
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date:	07/28/2019
Edition description:	1st ed. 2017
Pages:	274
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x 0.00(d)

About the Author

Alexander J. Means is Assistant Professor of Social and Psychological Foundations of Education, State University of New York College at Buffalo, USA.

Derek R. Ford is Assistant Professor of Education Studies, DePauw University, USA.

Graham B. Slater is Marriner S. Eccles Fellow in Political Economy at the University of Utah, USA. His research has appeared in theJournal of Education Policy, Educational Studies, and The Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Toward an Educational Commons.- Chapter 1: Commons as Actuality, Ethos, And Horizon.- Chapter 2: Reframing the Common: Race, Coloniality, and Pedagogy.- Chapter 3: Reassembling the Natural and Social Commons.- Chapter 4: Toward an Elaboration of the Pedagogical Common.- Chapter 5: Impersonal Education and the Commons.- Chapter 6: #BlackLivesMatter: Racialization, the Human, and Critical Public Pedagogies of Race.- Chapter 7: A Question of Knowledge: Radical Social Movements and Self-Education.- Chapter 8: Educational Enclosure and the Existential Commons: Settler Colonialism, Racial Capitalism, and the Problem of the Human.- Chapter 9: Common Relationality: Antiracist Solidarity, Racial Embodiment, and the Problem of Self-Possession.- Chapter 10: Education and the Civil Commons.- Chapter 11: Educating the Commons through Cooperatively-Run Schools.- Chapter 12: Big Talk in the Little City: Grassroots Resistance by and for the Common/s.- Chapter 13: Revitalizing the Commons in New Mexico: A Pedagogical Consideration of Socially Engaged Art.

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

“This is a rich collective resource for thinking differently about education. It is the very demonstration of our cooperative powers to teach and learn from each other directly in a social experiment that escapes the enclosures of the university, the college, and the school. This collection is proof of our undiminished powers of study together.” (Stefano Harney, Professor of Strategic Management Education, Singapore Management University)

“The editors have collated a remarkably diverse range of contributions all pointing at the struggles against education enclosures, and the powers of educational commons. The proponents of the ‘edufactory’ are finally finding its critical nemesis.” (Massimo De Angelis, Professor of Political Economy, University of East London, UK)