Preface                                                                                                                       vii

 

PART I: INTRODUCTION                                                                                                 

 

1    Postmodernism in Educational Theory                                                                     3

      Glenn Rikowski and Peter McLaren

 

2    Prelude: Marxist Educational Theory after                                                             15

      Postmodernism

      Glenn Rikowski

        

        

PART II: POSTMODERN EXCESS

 

3    Breaking Signifying Chains: A Marxist Position                                                   35

      on Postmodernism

      Peter McLaren and Ramin Farahmandpur

 

4    Structuring the Postmodern in Education Policy                                                 67

      Michael W. Apple and Geoff Whitty

 

5    ‘Resistance Postmodernism’—Progressive Politics                                             91

      or Rhetorical Left Posturing? 

      Mike Cole and Dave Hill

 

PART III: HUMAN RESISTANCE AGAINST

POSTMODERNISM

        

6    Education, Capital and the Transhuman                                                               115

      Glenn Rikowski

7    Youth, Training and the Politics of ‘Cool’                                                            153

      Michael Neary

 

8    Marxism, Class Analysis and Postmodernism                                                     167

      Dave Hill, Mike Sanders and Ted Hankin

     

9    Racism, Postmodernism and the Flight from Class                                             207

      Jenny Bourne 

 

10  Women, Work and the Family: Or Why Postmodernism                                   225

      Cannot Explain the Links

      Jane Kelly

 

 

PART IV: PEDAGOGY, REPRISE AND

CONCLUSION

 

11  Recentering Class: Wither Postmodernism? Toward                                         253

      a Contraband Pedagogy

     Peter McLaren and Ramin Farahmandpur

 

12  Postmodernism Adieu: Toward a Politics of Human                                          291

      Resistance

      Peter McLaren, Dave Hill, Mike Cole and

      Glenn Rikowski

 

    

Bibliography                                                                                                                    303

 

 

Index                                                                                                                                      

 

 

About the Contributors                                                                                                 351