Education and the Reproduction of Capital

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xv

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2. Neoliberal Education and Imagining Strategies of Resistance: An Introduction

   • Ravi Kumar

   Pages 1-13

3. Social Class and Rebellion: The Role of Knowledge Production in Capitalist Society

   • Curry Stephenson Malott

   Pages 15-40

4. How Shall We Live as Lambs Among Wolves? Reason—Passion—Power and Organization: What to Do?

   • Rich Gibson

   Pages 41-62

5. Class, Neoliberal Capitalism in Crisis, and the Resistant and Transformative Role of Education and Knowledge Workers

   • Dave Hill

   Pages 63-100

6. Rethinking Schools and Society/ Combating Neoliberal Globalization

   • David Hursh

   Pages 101-112

7. Education Toward War

   • Faith Agostinone-Wilson

   Pages 113-134

8. Neoliberal Politics Impacting Education: Imagining Possibilities of Resistance

   • Ravi Kumar

   Pages 135-152

9. The Struggle and Its Generalization: The Case of the University

   • Paresh Chandra

   Pages 153-170

10. Learning Truth Telling: Beyond Neoliberal Education

    • Savyasaachi

    Pages 171-187

11. Twenty-First-Century Socialism and Education in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela: An Alternative to the Neoliberal Model

    • Mike Cole

    Pages 189-208

12. Being, Becoming, and Breaking Free: Peter McLaren and the Pedagogy of Liberation

    • Peter McLaren, Ravi Kumar

    Pages 209-239

13. Back Matter

    Pages 241-251

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A reflection on the specific context of neoliberal capitalism and it's impact on education. The chapters establish the intersectionality of state, capital and education and engage with possibilities of transcending the onslaught of capital in different geographical locations – from the Northern Hemisphere to the Southern Hemisphere.

• education
• globalization
• learning
• politics

"Kumar's Education and the Reproduction of Capital is a welcome addition to the literature because it demonstrates the destructive impact of neoliberalism in different localities across the globe and it does so with robust analyses from a number of well-known scholars who imagine strategies of resistance, analyze processes of knowledge production and the role of knowledge workers, and fundamentally rethink the role of schools in the current capitalist crisis." - Michael A. Peters, Professor Emeritus, University of Illinois; professor, Policy, Cultural & Social Studies in Education, University of Waikato

"This book does not shy away from the necessary task of putting increased pressure on the knowledge and practices that help to sustain capitalism. Depicting capitalist class practices and their effects across a range of sites in vivid terms and examining them from the vantage points of a diverse array of critical traditions, it makes an important contribution to promoting the wide discussion and fresh analyses that are urgent to the pedagogical work of clarifying the world's consciousness regarding the unsustainability of capitalism." - Deborah Kelsh, The College of Saint Rose

RAVI KUMAR is an Associate Professor of Sociology at South Asian University, India.

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