Anarchist Pedagogies Collective Actions, Theories, and Critical Reflections on Education

by Haworth, Robert H.; Antliff, Allan

• ISBN13: 9781604864847
• ISBN10: 1604864842
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-08-01
• Publisher: PM Press

Summary

Important and challenging issues in the area of anarchism and education are presented in this history of egalitarian and free school practices. From Francisco Ferrer's modern schools in Spain and the Work People's College in the United States, to contemporary actions in developing "free skools" in the United Kingdom and Canada, the contributors illustrate the importance of developing complex connections between educational theories and collective actions. Major themes in the volume include learning from historical anarchist experiments in education, ways that contemporary anarchists create dynamic and situated learning spaces, and critical reflections on theoretical frameworks and educational practices. Many trailblazing thinkers and practitioners contributed to this volume, such as Jeffery Shantz, John Jordon, Abraham de Leon, Richard Kahn, Matthew Weinstein, and Alex Khasnabish. This thoughtful and provocative collection proves that egalitarian education is possible at all ages and levels.

Author Biography

Robert H. Haworth is an associate professor in multicultural education at University of Wisconsin–La Crosse. He has published and presented internationally on anarchism, youth culture, informal learning spaces, and critical social studies education. He lives in La Crosse, Wisconsin. Andrej Grubacic is an anarchist dissident, a historian, and a sociologist who has written on anarchism and the history of the Balkans. He is the author of Wobblies and Zapatistas and editor of The Staughton Lynd Reader. He lives in San Francisco.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
Anarchism & Education: Learning from Historical Experimentations
(On a desert island, between friends)	p. 12
Anarchism, the State, and the Role of Education	p. 14
Updating the Anarchist Forecast for Social Justice in Our Compulsory Schools	p. 32
Educate, Organize, Emancipate: The Work People's College and The Industrial Workers of the World	p. 47
From Deschooling to Unschooling: Rethinking Anarchopedagogy after Ivan Illich	p. 69
Anarchist Pedagogies in the "Here and Now"
(in a crowded place, between strangers)	p. 88
Street Medicine, Anarchism, and Ciencia Popular	p. 90
Anarchist Pedagogy in Action: Paideia, Escuela Libre	p. 107
Spaces of Learning: The Anarchist Free Skool	p. 124
The Nottingham Free School: Notes Toward a Systemization of Praxis	p. 145
Learning to Win: Anarchist Infrastructures of Resistance	p. 162
Inside, Outside, and on the Edge of the Academy: Experiments in Radical Pedagogies	p. 175
Anarchy in the Academy: Staying True to Anarchism as an Academic-Activist	p. 200
Philosophical Perspectives and Theoretical Frameworks
(On a mountaintop, between two who are in fact one)	p. 218
To Walk Questioning: Zapatismo, the Radical Imagination, and a Transnational Pedagogy of Liberation	p. 220
Anarchism, Pedagogy, Queer Theory and Poststructuralism: Toward a Positive Ethical Theory, of Knowledge and the Self	p. 242
Anarcho-Feminist Psychology: Contributing to Postformal Criticality	p. 260
Paideia for Praxis: Philosophy and Pedagogy as Practices of Liberation	p. 283
That Teaching Is Impossible	p. 303
Against the Grain of the Status Quo: Anarchism behind Enemy Lines	p. 312
Afterword Let the Riots Begin	p. 326
Contributors	p. 329
Acknowledgments	p. 334
Index	p. 335
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