Althusser and Education : : reassessing critical education / / David I. Backer.

• Superior document: Radical Politics and Education
• VerfasserIn: Backer, David I.,
• Place / Publishing House: London : : Bloomsbury Academic,, 2022.
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Radical politics and education.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (228 pages).

Louis Althusser's thinking laid the groundwork for critical educational theory, yet it is often misunderstood in critical pedagogy, sociology of education, and related fields. In this open access book, David I. Backer reexamines Althusser's educational theory, specifically the claim that education is the most powerful ideological state apparatus in modern capitalist societies. He then presents this theory's flawed reception in critical educational research and draws out a lost tradition of educational thinking it inspired with important applications to race, gender, ideology, and the concept of social structure in education. Correcting the record about Althusser's thinking in the traditional narrative of critical educational research becomes an opportunity to revisit fundamental questions for thinking about school in its social context. For students and researchers of education, critical theory, sociology of education, and critical pedagogy, this book will be a resource for rethinking the social foundations of education, both as a field and as a set of theoretical frameworks for educational research. The eBook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com.

Table of Contents

Introduction -- Part I: Education as an Ideological State Apparatus: Eleven Rules -- 1. An Attempt to Interpret the Events of May -- 2. The Rule of Keys: Social Reproduction -- 3. The Rule of Hands: Relations of Production -- 4. The Competency Rule -- 5. The Rule of Special Thirds: Base and Superstructure -- 6. The System, Toe, and Anchor Rules: ISA Basics -- 7. The Causality Rule: Grey Cows and Green Cheese -- 8. The Struggle Rule: The Necessity of Contingency -- 9. The School Rule -- 10. The Go Rule -- 11. Conclusion -- Part II: The Common Sense About Althusser: Foundations of Critical Education -- 12. The Three Critiques -- 13. Foundations of Critical Education: Apple and Giroux's Indecision -- 14. Roots of the Common Sense -- 15. Against Generality: Hirst -- 16. A Trotskyite Calling Stalin: Callinicos -- 17. The Eagle's Apostasy: E. P. Thompson -- 18. Ashes and Promiscuity: Willis and Connell -- 19. Conclusion -- Part III: Structural Education: Towards an Althusserian Pedagogy -- 20. Developments in Structure, Reproduction, and the Relations of Production -- 21. The Structure of Race in Education: From Hall to Leonardo -- 22. Structural Analysis of Girls' Education: AnnMarie Wolpe -- 23. Gender, History, Duality: Barrett -- 24. Marxist Feminist Education Research: Arnot, Deem, and Vallis -- 25. Ideology in Struggle: Advances in Interpellation -- Conclusion -- Epilogue -- References -- Index.