Richard Hall & Inny Accioly 
The Palgrave International Handbook of Marxism and Education 

The Palgrave International Handbook of Marxism and Education is an international and interdisciplinary volume, which provides a thorough and precise engagement with emergent developments in Marxist theory in both the global South and North. Drawing on the work of authoritative scholars and practitioners, the handbook explicitly shows how these developments enable a rich historical and material understanding of the full range of education sectors and contexts. The handbook proceeds in a spirit of openness and dialogue within and between various conceptions and traditions of Marxism and brings those conceptions into dialogue with their critics and other anti-capitalist traditions. As such, it contributes to the development of Marxist analyses that push beyond established limits, by engaging with fresh perspectives and views that disrupt established perspectives.

Table of Content

PART I – 1. Introduction: The Relevance of Marxism to Education.- 2. Marx, Materialism and Education.- 3.    Value in Education: Its web of social forms.- 4.    Breaking Bonds: How Academic Capitalism Feeds Processes of Academic Alienation.- 5. The Class in Race, Gender, and Learning.- 6. Foundations and Challenges of Polytechnic Education.- 7. Liberation Theology, Marxism and Education.- 8. Marxism and Adult Education.- 9.  In-Against-Beyond Metrics-Driven University: A Marxist Critique of the Capitalist Imposition of Measure on Academic Labour.- 10. Classroom as a Site of Class Struggle.- 11. Science Communication, Competitive Project-based Funding and the Formal Subsumption of Academic Labour Under Capital.- 12. Commodification, the Violence of Abstraction, and Measuring Socially Necessary Labor Time: A Marxist Analysis of High-Stakes Testing and Capitalist Education in the United States.- 13. The Reproduction of Capitalism in Education: Althusser and the Educational Ideological State Apparatus.- PART II – 14. Critique of the Political Economy of Education: Methodological Notes for the Analysis of Global Educational Reforms.- 15. The Beginnings of Marxism and Workers’ Education in the Spanish-speaking Southern Cone: The Case of Chile.- 16. Commodification and Financialization of Education in Brazil: Trends and Particularities of Dependent Capitalism.- 17. Critical Environmental Education, Marxism and Environmental Conflicts: Some Contributions in the Light of Latin America.- 18. Green Marxism, Ecocentric Pedagogies and De-capitalization/Decolonization.- 19. Indian Problem to Indian Solution: Using a Racio-Marxist Lens to Expose the Invisible War in Education.- 20. Re-reading Socialist Art: the Potential of Queer Marxism in Education.- 21. Making Sense of Neoliberalism’s New Nexus between Work and Education, Teachers’ Work, and Teachers’ Labor Activism:Implications for Labor and the Left.- 22. Contemporary Student Movements and Capitalism: A Marxist Debate.- PART III – 23. Revisiting and Revitalizing Need as Non-Dualist Foundation for a (R)evolutionary Pedagogy.- 24. Reproduction in Struggle.- 25. State and Public Policy in Education: From the Weakness of the Public to an Agenda for Social Development and Redistribution.- 26. Marxism, (Higher) Education and the Commons.- 27. Marx, Critique, and Abolition: Higher Education as Infrastructure.- 28. Toward a Decolonial Marxism: Considering the Dialectics and Analectics in the Counter-Geographies of Women of the Global South.- 29. The (im)possibilities of Revolutionary Pedagogical-Political Kinship (m)otherwise: The Gifts of (Autonomous) Marxist Feminisms and Decolonial/Abolitionist Communitarian Feminisms to Pedagogical-Political Projects of Collective Liberation.- 30. Marxism in an Activist Key: Educational Implications of an Activist-Transformative Philosophy.

About the author

Richard Hall is Professor of Education and Technology at De Montfort University, UK, and an Advance HE National Teaching Fellow.
Inny Accioly is Professor of Education at the Fluminense Federal University, Brazil. She develops projects focused on connecting university and grassroots movements in Latin America, relating environmental education, anti-racist education, unionism, and indigenous and traditional knowledge.
Krystian Szadkowski is a researcher at the Scholarly Communication Research Group of Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland. His interests cover political economy and transformations of higher education systems in Central and Eastern Europe, as well as the issues of the public and the common in higher education.