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Marxism and education.

This episode examines the impact on learning of a thinker, Karl Marx, who had a revolutionary effect on the world in general. In the name of Marx and his collaborator Engels, politicians of the 20th Century created regimes that were utopian in some cases, highly repressive and even murderous in others. Meanwhile, the heirs to Marx’s intellectual tradition fleshed out Marxism as a rich and powerful explanatory system. And though controversial to this day, Marxist thought has had an enduring effect on learning and education.

00:00:00 - Intro
00:00:57 - Introducing The Marxists
00:05:28 - Karl Marx (1818-1883)
00:18:16 - Antonio Francesco Gramsci (1891-1937)
00:27:14 - Louis Pierre Althusser (1918-1990)
00:47:00 - Jürgen Habermas (1929 - )
01:00:02 - Paulo Regius Neves Freire (1921-97)
01:09:38 - Summing up

The Blog that started it all: https://donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.com/2021/09/these-were-written-as-quick-readable.html

Marx bit.ly/315AxKF
Gramsci bit.ly/2REFkj6
Althusser bit.ly/2UihsUe
Habermas bit.ly/46TpxAS
Freire bit.ly/496gQF1

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Marxism and education.

This episode examines the impact on learning of a thinker, Karl Marx, who had a revolutionary effect on the world in general. In the name of Marx and his collaborator Engels, politicians of the 20th Century created regimes that were utopian in some cases, highly repressive and even murderous in others. Meanwhile, the heirs to Marx’s intellectual tradition fleshed out Marxism as a rich and powerful explanatory system. And though controversial to this day, Marxist thought has had an enduring effect on learning and education.

00:00:00 - Intro
00:00:57 - Introducing The Marxists
00:05:28 - Karl Marx (1818-1883)
00:18:16 - Antonio Francesco Gramsci (1891-1937)
00:27:14 - Louis Pierre Althusser (1918-1990)
00:47:00 - Jürgen Habermas (1929 - )
01:00:02 - Paulo Regius Neves Freire (1921-97)
01:09:38 - Summing up

The Blog that started it all: https://donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.com/2021/09/these-were-written-as-quick-readable.html

Marx bit.ly/315AxKF
Gramsci bit.ly/2REFkj6
Althusser bit.ly/2UihsUe
Habermas bit.ly/46TpxAS
Freire bit.ly/496gQF1

Contact Donald
X: @DonaldClark
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/donald-clark-04553022/
Blog: http://donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.com/

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Marxism and education.

This episode examines the impact on learning of a thinker, Karl Marx, who had a revolutionary effect on the world in general. In the name of Marx and his collaborator Engels, politicians of the 20th Century created regimes that were utopian in some cases, highly repressive and even murderous in others. Meanwhile, the heirs to Marx’s intellectual tradition fleshed out Marxism as a rich and powerful explanatory system. And though controversial to this day, Marxist thought has had an enduring effect on learning and education.

In this episode Dr. Jesse Benjamin returns to the podcast.

Like our previous conversation with Jesse we’re connecting to talk about a recently released book by Walter Rodney, in this case it’s Decolonial Marxism: Essays From The Pan-African Revolution, which is a previously unpublished collection of Rodney’s essays on race, colonialism and Marxism. Jesse Benjamin is a scholar, activist, publisher, and board member for the Walter Rodney Foundation, and he is the co-editor of Decolonial Marxism.

We talk about how Decolonial Marxism showcases Rodney’s range as a theorist and a thinker, as an educator, and as an activist. This collection of essays across a range of topics really provides practical examples of what we think Rodney meant by the term “guerilla intellectual.” It also gives us a glimpse of how Rodney assessed some of the movements and key theorists and leaders of his lifetime, particularly with respect to anticolonial nationalists and socialists on the African continent. Jesse Benjamin offers insights into how he reads Rodney’s work in these pieces with respect to pedagogy and epistemology. We also talk about the title Decolonial Marxism and how Rodney takes up the questions of the relevance of Marxism to African peoples and other peoples of the so-called Third World. Jesse also talks about the significance of many of Rodney’s interventions in a range of areas and approaches that are really groundbreaking or, at the very least, would’ve been quite cutting edge during Rodney’s lifetime. And all of us marvel at how relevant and insightful Rodney’s contributions remain decades after his assassination.

We strongly recommend the book for anyone who appreciates Walter Rodney’s work and if you’re not familiar with Rodney’s work it’s really essential stuff and we highly recommend it. Verso Books has published this text and they also have editions of 3 other Rodney books all of which are authorized by the Walter Rodney Foundation and Rodney’s family. And everything is 40% off over there at Verso for the rest of September.

Make sure you get connected with the Walter Rodney Foundation every year they host a Walter Rodney Symposium which is an amazing event.

And if you like what we do here we hope you will consider joining up with all of our wonderful patrons in supporting the show. We currently have a drive to add 25 new patrons this month. We only need 10 more to hit our goal for this month, so head on over to patreon.com/millennialsarekillingcapitalism and become a patron if you can spare $1 a month or more. Also while you’re there we currently have a poll to determine our next study group book, so make sure you vote on that and be on the look out for updates because we will be reconvening our study group in October.

Our previous conversations that deal most directly with Walter Rodney's work and life (from most recent to oldest):

“Almost As If Their Spirits Are Still There” - David Austin on The 1968 Congress of Black Writers

"Our Enemies Know the Power of Books" - Louis Allday and Liberated Texts

"The Wealth of Europe is the (Stolen) Wealth of Africa" with Devyn Springer

Walter Rodney's Russian Revolution - A View From The Third World with Dr Jesse Benjamin

Devyn Springer Discusses Walter Rodney

Drawing upon the input of 20 activist musicians, Dr. Juliet Hess wrote a book about building curricula that support noticing, naming, and coming to voice. Building from Paulo Freire’s understandings from the Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Hess offers a curriculum that asks students to construct songs, discuss soundscapes, and notice and name the structures that surround our expressions of music. Exploring the lessons of James Hwang, Lisa Vaugeouis, and Theresa Vu and Taiyo Na of the Magnetic North Band, we enter profound lessons that seek to hold space for student voices in music education curricula.

The Music & Peacebuilding Podcast is hosted by Kevin Shorner-Johnson at Elizabethtown College. Join our professional development network at www.musicpeacebuilding.com - thinking deeply we reclaim space for connection and care.

El día que Heike Freire decidió dejar su intensa vida en París y trasladarse a un pueblo con su familia, todo cambió. Esta filósofa y pedagoga se ha convertido en todo un referente de la conocida como ‘psicología verde’, que plantea el contacto con la naturaleza y el medioambiente como recurso educativo fundamental. Ella es la primera protagonista de ‘Creando futuro’, el proyecto de BBVA y XL Semanal que persigue concienciar sobre un mundo más sostenible.

¿Qué es lo que quieres en tu vida? Esta es la pregunta que Heike Freire se hizo tras años dedicando la mayor parte de las horas a su trabajo como consultora. A partir de ahí, inició un camino enfocado hacia el mundo natural en todos los sentidos. A nivel personal, cambiando de ubicación geográfica; y a nivel profesional, poniendo en práctica lo que denominó en su libro 'Educar en verde' como ‘psicología verde’.

Es una filosofía de la educación que busca acompañar el desarrollo de las personas en relación con la naturaleza. Freire considera que “ hay una fractura entre el ser humano y el  mundo natural”, por lo que con esta psicología lo que se intenta es “volver a tejer ese vínculo para que el ser humano sea más pleno, más saludable y menos dañino para su entorno”.

¿Por qué denominar esta filosofía como verde? La filósofa ha asegurado que a la pedagogía siempre se le han puesto colores bien por la ideología o bien por la política. Por lo tanto, ¿qué mejor color para su propio método que verde? Y es que la naturaleza en sí misma influye en todo. También en las emociones, ya que al ponernos en contacto con ella conectamos con la inteligencia de la vida.

Según esta especialista, a nivel emocional, los espacios verdes permiten gestionar mejor el estrés. “La dosis media para un niño de entre 0 y 12 años tendría que ser de tres o cuatro horas diarias de contacto con el aire libre. Cuanta más tecnología tenemos más naturaleza necesitamos”, ha recalcado. Por ello, propone un equilibrio de ambas cosas.

Heike Freire cree que el eje de todas las asignaturas debe de ser el medioambiente. ¿Cómo? A través de tres factores vinculados a la enseñanza procedente de la naturaleza enseña: el amor incondicional, ya que cuando estás en la naturaleza nadie te juzga; el ejemplo, porque cada animal, cada planta te está enseñando cosas sobre lo que es vivir; y el error.

‘Creando futuro’: un proyecto para difundir contenidos sobre sostenibilidad

BBVA y el Grupo Vocento se han unido en una iniciativa de divulgación cuyo objetivo es crear conciencia en la sociedad sobre uno de los grandes retos a los que se enfrenta: la transición hacia una economía más sostenible e inclusiva. Durante cinco meses, se publicarán 10 entrevistas, a destacados expertos en la materia, en el XL Semanal y en las ediciones digitales de todas las cabeceras regionales del Grupo Vocento. En ellas se tratarán temas como el cambio climático, la importancia del aprendizaje asociado al medioambiente o la arquitectura sostenible.

Algunos de los protagonistas que participarán con sus testimonios en este proyecto, han formado parte del programa educativo de BBVA ‘Aprendemos juntos’. Es el caso de la pedagoga Heike Freire; el meteorólogo Mario Picazo; el naturalista Joaquín Araujo; el profesor Sugata Mitra y el paleontólogo Juan Luis Arsuaga. A ellos se unirán con su conocimiento y experiencia la botanista Joanne Chory; el arquitecto y padre del ‘ecodiseño’ Ken Yeang; el biólogo marino Ed Gillespie; el químico Michael Braungart y el director global de Negocio Responsable de BBVA, Antoni Ballabriga.