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Encountering Education: Elements for a Marxist Pedagogy
"As the crises of imperialist capitalism continues to worsen, Ford's pedagogy of the encounter provides a key weapon for navigating the unknow gap between the current situation and a communist future." - Curry S. Malott, Associate Professor of Educational Foundations and Policy Studies, West Chester University of Pennsylvania.
" Encountering Education is a powerful call for resistance which masterfully weaves together Ford's ground-breaking theoretical work and his activist experience from the streets and picket lines. The result is a revolutionary book which calls to action and directs that action, through pedagogies of the class struggle." - Petar Jandric, Zagreb University of Applied Sciences, Croatia, and University of Wolverhampton, UK
In Encountering Education , organizer, and political and educational theorist Derek R. Ford develops new marxist pedagogical elements to advance the class struggle. Ford argues that the entire marxist project of establishing the dictatorship of the proletariat and creating a classless society entails an educational praxis that builds up disinterpellative encounters. Through an inventive reading of Marx Althusser, Glissant, and others, they advance two dialectical pedagogical processes of inquiry and presentation, developing both-and the political relations between the two-through a range of theorists and situations. Encountering Education both illuminates the historical, political, spatial, technological, and sonic conditions of our struggle and assembles new pedagogical forms of reading, writing, listening, and learning through which we can encounter and realize an alternative social formation and, through the guidance of the Party, a new mode of production.
" Encountering Education is a powerful call for resistance which masterfully weaves together Ford's ground-breaking theoretical work and his activist experience from the streets and picket lines. The result is a revolutionary book which calls to action and directs that action, through pedagogies of the class struggle." - Petar Jandric, Zagreb University of Applied Sciences, Croatia, and University of Wolverhampton, UK
In Encountering Education , organizer, and political and educational theorist Derek R. Ford develops new marxist pedagogical elements to advance the class struggle. Ford argues that the entire marxist project of establishing the dictatorship of the proletariat and creating a classless society entails an educational praxis that builds up disinterpellative encounters. Through an inventive reading of Marx Althusser, Glissant, and others, they advance two dialectical pedagogical processes of inquiry and presentation, developing both-and the political relations between the two-through a range of theorists and situations. Encountering Education both illuminates the historical, political, spatial, technological, and sonic conditions of our struggle and assembles new pedagogical forms of reading, writing, listening, and learning through which we can encounter and realize an alternative social formation and, through the guidance of the Party, a new mode of production.
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138 pages, Paperback
Published January 30, 2022
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December 10, 2022
An extremely verbose annotated bibliography.
If Derek Ford truly thinks "opacity" is an ideal for pedagogy, he might be pleased that his work can so certainly be termed opaque.
Though opaque, it is also sharply evocative. Human development becomes accumulating puddles in the rain (invoking *Myshlenie i Rech's* final paragraphs). Colonialism's legacy in history becomes an "open boat," a reversed traversal in the necessarily appropriated bones of a pedagogy meant to turn people to chattel.
It's a sea of tears and scars and bones, an ocean of words, each one a fossilized experience of so many ones who left only a degrading sonic evidence of what they thought they were communicating with the generations of young who followed in their "wake" (I wonder, how many scare quotes becomes "too" many).
One can wonder if, even after reading the all-but-assigned-readings for *understanding* the text, some of the imagery will even make sense after all that. I find myself stumped at the spheres, or every other word that appears to encompass...too much (for my poor littl bwain), in too many vague ways. There's a heaping handful of such words (often organized in whole sentences composed of such words) in this book. Powerful, hallucinatory "pharmakons." They appear from nowhere with little preamble (mostly in the form of of a required-reading gatekeeper text). I hope Ford can remain assured, I'm attempting to "listen to" and "hear" the text, and even on occasion "not listening" to the text, when I find myself drifting after so many rereads of a single sentence and also when I decide that no, I will *not* next be reading Lyotard.
I really think this work deserves a 3.5. However, I think Derek Ford's "Reading Capital with Comrades" is a true 5 star modern classic.
If Derek Ford truly thinks "opacity" is an ideal for pedagogy, he might be pleased that his work can so certainly be termed opaque.
Though opaque, it is also sharply evocative. Human development becomes accumulating puddles in the rain (invoking *Myshlenie i Rech's* final paragraphs). Colonialism's legacy in history becomes an "open boat," a reversed traversal in the necessarily appropriated bones of a pedagogy meant to turn people to chattel.
It's a sea of tears and scars and bones, an ocean of words, each one a fossilized experience of so many ones who left only a degrading sonic evidence of what they thought they were communicating with the generations of young who followed in their "wake" (I wonder, how many scare quotes becomes "too" many).
One can wonder if, even after reading the all-but-assigned-readings for *understanding* the text, some of the imagery will even make sense after all that. I find myself stumped at the spheres, or every other word that appears to encompass...too much (for my poor littl bwain), in too many vague ways. There's a heaping handful of such words (often organized in whole sentences composed of such words) in this book. Powerful, hallucinatory "pharmakons." They appear from nowhere with little preamble (mostly in the form of of a required-reading gatekeeper text). I hope Ford can remain assured, I'm attempting to "listen to" and "hear" the text, and even on occasion "not listening" to the text, when I find myself drifting after so many rereads of a single sentence and also when I decide that no, I will *not* next be reading Lyotard.
I really think this work deserves a 3.5. However, I think Derek Ford's "Reading Capital with Comrades" is a true 5 star modern classic.
August 25, 2022
Is this a book for academics only? Or is it a dick brain swinging contest? Is there a difference? I dont doubt its got importance and relevance but does it not go against the very nature of what it is to be a communist when what you write is for the highly (theory) educated people of society? I couldn't find any flow in the writing and it was so jarring and epicly painful to get through. But im straight stupid so maybe its great for the elitist brains out there. Will try again in 15 years.
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