Educating from Marx

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Marxist-Feminists Organizing Knowledge

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Introduction: A Specter Haunts Adult Education: Crafting a Marxist-Feminist Framework for Adult Education and Learning

      • Sara Carpenter, Shahrzad Mojab

      Pages 3-18

   3. Ideology, Science, and Social Relations: A Reinterpretation of Marx’s Epistemology

      • Dorothy E. Smith

      Pages 19-40

   4. Building from Marx: Reflections on “Race,” Gender, and Class

      • Himani Bannerji

      Pages 41-60

3. Marxist-Feminist Praxis

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 61-61

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   2. Examining the Social Relations of Learning Citizenship: Citizenship and Ideology in Adult Education

      • Sara Carpenter

      Pages 63-86

   3. Learning to Mentor Young People: A Saintly Vocation or an Alienating Experience?

      • Helen Colley

      Pages 87-111

   4. Exploring the Social Relations of Class Struggle in the Ontario Minimum Wage Campaign

      • Sheila Wilmot

      Pages 113-137

   5. The Ideological Practice of “Canadian Work Experience”: Adult Education and the Reproduction of Labor and Difference

      • Bonnie Slade

      Pages 139-163

4. Marxist-Feminism, Imperialism, and Culture

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 165-165

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   2. Adult Education in/and Imperialism

      • Shahrzad Mojab

      Pages 167-190

   3. Materiality and Memory: A Marxist-Feminist Perspective on the “Cultural Turn” in Adult Education

      • Tara Silver

      Pages 191-210

   4. Epilogue: Living Revolution, Learning Revolution, Teaching Revolution

      • Shahrzad Mojab, Sara Carpenter

      Pages 211-225

5. Back Matter

   Pages 227-258

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Educators have been working to develop an important body of literature on neo-liberalism, capitalism, and imperialism. This combines original empirical studies with literature review from critical adult education and feminist theory to examine the theories, and practices of adult education from a Marxist-Feminist perspective.

• adult education
• capitalism
• education
• feminism
• gender
• Karl Marx

SHAHRZAD MOJAB Professor in the Department of Adult Education and Counselling Psychology at the University of Toronto's Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), Canada.
SARA CARPENTER PhD Candidate in the Department of Adult Education & Counselling Psychology at the University of Toronto's OISE, Canada.

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