Karl Marx The Revolutionary As Educator _ Robin Small 2014

KARL MARX THE REVOLUTIONARY

AS EDUCATOR

Robin Small

2014

Pages : 88

1. The Education of an Educator1

1.1 Introduction 1

1.2 Marx’s Schooling 3

1.3 Doctor Marx 6

1.4 Marx as Journalist 10

References 13

2 Marx’s Radical Turn 15

2.1 Introduction 15

2.2 The Debate with Materialism 17

2.3 The Debate with Max Stirner 20

2.4 The Birth of Historical Materialism 25

2.5 The Communist Manifesto 27

References 30

3 Capitalism and Education 33

3.1 Introduction 33

3.2 Value, Commodities and Money 36

3.3 Inside the Black Box of Capitalism 39

3.4 Marx as a Social Historian 43

3.5 Schooling and the Factory Acts 46

References 49

4 The Politics of Schooling 51

4.1 Introduction 51

4.2 The Debate Over Factory Schools 53

4.3 The Debate Over State Education 56

4.4 The Debate Over the Curriculum 60

4.5 Polytechnical Education 63

References  67

5 Lessons from Marx  69

5.1 Introduction  69

5.2 Are Schools Ideological Institutions? 72

5.3 The State and the Privatisation of

Knowledge 74

5.4 Teachers and Their Work 77

5.5 Is Teaching a Professional Occupation? 80

References