Education And The Reproduction Of Capital

The volume is a reflection on the specific context of neoliberal capitalism and it's impact on education. The chapters move beyond establishing the linkages between neoliberalism and education. They establish the intersectionality of state, capital and education and engage with possibilities of transcending the onslaught of capital.

Cutting across different chapters there is an analysis of how capital mutilates the educational structures, shapes the discourses to further its own interests and is constantly engaged in thwarting possibilities of opposition. Despite this offensive of capital possibilities of resistance remain. Contributors have made efforts through examples to demonstrate how this happens in different geographical locations - from the Northern Hemisphere to the Southern Hemisphere.

Review: 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