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Education's New Marxist Commitments

New Discourses

CHAPTER

The Paradox of the Critical Turn in Education

Michael Apple says critical theory has been integrated into the formal corpus of official programs in education throughout the world. Marcusa: Such incorporation may also signify a process of cooptation, taking insurgent knowledge and turning it into one more academic area that needs to be studied for examinations. "Instead of making academics more political, it turns the political into an academic subject that can be studied"

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