From Radical Marxism to Knowledge Socialism

Michael A. Peters is Distinguished Professor of Education at Beijing Normal University and Emeritus Professor at the University of Illinois. He is the Executive Editor of the journal Educational Philosophy and Theory. His interests are in education, philosophy and social policy, and he is the author of over 100 books, including The Chinese Dream: Educating the Future (2019), Wittgenstein, Education and Rationality (2020) and Wittgenstein: Antifoundationalism, Technoscience and Education (2020).Liz Jackson is Professor of Education at the Education University of Hong Kong. She is also the Immediate Past President of the Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia and the former Director of the Comparative Education Research Centre at the University of Hong Kong. Her interests are in philosophy of education, moral philosophy, and global studies. She is the author of Muslims and Islam in US Education: Reconsidering Multiculturalism (2014), Questioning Allegiance: Resituating Civic Education (2019) and Beyond Virtue: The Politics of Educating Emotions (2020).

• Introduction: Western Marxism in Educational Philosophy and Theory 1. Ideology and Schooling 2. Marxism and Education: Will the Doctrine Bear the Weight? 3. Education and Cultural Disadvantage 4. Illich and Anarchism 5. Knowledge and Ideology in the Marxist Philosophy of Education 6. Liberal Education and Social Change 7. The Continuing Conflicts Between Capitalism and Democracy: Ramifications for Schooling 8. Luce Irigaray: Women becoming subjects for a divine economy 9. The Nature and Limits of Critical Theory in Education 10. Class Dismissed? Historical materialism and the politics of ‘difference’ 11. A Brief Commentary on the Hegelian‐Marxist Origins of Gramsci's ‘Philosophy of Praxis’ 12. Hope, political imagination, and agency in Marxism and beyond: Explicating the transformative worldview and ethico-ontoepistemology 13. Knowledge socialism: the rise of peer production - collegiality, collaboration, and collective intelligence