Out of the ruins The emergence of radical informal learning spaces

Book - 2017

"Contemporary educational practices and policies across the world are heeding the calls of Wall Street for more corporate control, privatization, and standardized accountability. There are definite shifts and movements towards more capitalist interventions of efficiency and an adherence to market fundamentalist values within the sphere of public education. The important news is that emancipatory educational practices are emerging. In many cases, these alternatives have been undervalued or even excluded within the educational research. Out of the Ruins sets out to explore and discuss the emergence of alternative learning spaces that directly challenge the pairing of public education with particular dominant capitalist and statist struct...ures"--Amazon.com.

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Published
Oakland, California : PM Press [2017]
Language
English
Physical Description
274 pages ; 23 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN
9781629632391
  • Introduction: Thoughts on Radical Informal Learning Spaces
  • Section 1. Critiques of Education
  • Chapter 1. Miseducation and the Authoritarian Mind
  • Chapter 2. Don't Act, Just Think!
  • Section 2. Constructing Theoretical Frameworks for Educational Praxis
  • Chapter 3. From the Unlearned Un-man to a Pedagogy without Moulding: Stirner, Consciousness-Raising, and the Production of Difference
  • Chapter 4. Creating Transformative Anarchist-Geographic Learning Spaces
  • Chapter 5. The Wretched of the Network Society: Techno-Education and Colonization of the Digital
  • Section 3. The Emergence of Radical Informal Learning Spaces "Using the Institutional Space without Being of the Institution"
  • Chapter 6. What Do We Mean When We Say "Democracy"? Learning towards a Common Future through Popular Higher Education
  • Chapter 7. The Space Project: Creating Cracks within, against, and beyond Academic-Capitalism
  • Chapter 8. Anarchists against (and within) the Edu-Factory: The Critical Criminology Working Group
  • Chapter 9. Teaching Anarchism by Practicing Anarchy: Reflections on Facilitating the Student-Creation of a College Course
  • Section 4. Of the Streets and the Coming Educational Communities
  • Chapter 10. Toward an Anti- and Alter-University: Thriving in the Mess of Studying, Organizing, and Relating with ExCo of the Twin Cities
  • Chapter 11. What Is Horizontal Pedagogy? A Discussion on Dandelions
  • Chapter 12. Street Theory: Grassroots Activist Interventions in Regimes of Knowledge
  • Chapter 13. Theory Meet Practice: Evolving Ideas and Actions in Anarchist Free Schools
  • Contributors
  • Index