![]() ![]() Well, I personally can agree with dialectical materialism as a way of interpreting the world, so Au's progression felt natural. It is an interpretation that makes sense. Au isn't shifty about where the assumptions lie, and if you wanted to challenge the arguments made here you'd probably do best to challenge the core tenets of Marxist (-Leninist) dialectical materialism - for instance, "we can know things as integrated totalities," "making use of summation and generalization as forms of abstraction for what is happening in the world," and, notably, "we are our relations." Au moves from Marx to Lenin to Vygotsky (it was interesting to learn about him) to Freire, and it feels like a neat edifice. It is a clean argument built from the ground up. ![]() ![]() This book is what is promises to be: a Marxist interpretation of school systems as institutions replicating and perpetuating the capitalist dominance of those in power, yet simultaneously functioning as grounds for resistance, as well as an interpretation of education/teaching as a dialectical process. ![]()
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