In Constructing Twenty-First Century Socialism: The Role of Radical Education, Motta and Cole explore the role of the politics of knowledge and pedagogy in the reinvention of socialism for the twenty-first century. Through a critical analysis of Brazil, Colombia and Venezuela they deconstruct the mechanisms of neoliberal control as an epistemological project of monologue, closure, and violence against all 'others'. The authors develop an affirmative engagement with the traditions, practices, and politics which seek to challenge this closure through the policies of the counter-hegemonic government of Venezuela, the struggles of social movements in Brazil and Colombia, and the daily resistance of critical educators working in formal educational settings in all three countries. This mapping and analysis not only contribute to struggles for alternatives to capitalism in Latin America, but are translatable to other contexts. The book theorizes that with the exhaustion of neoliberalism, it is time to pedagogize the political and politicize the pedagogical in order to create worlds beyond capitalism.

Autorentext
Author Sara C. Motta: Sara C. Motta is Senior Lecturer in Politics in the Discipline of Politics and IR at the University of Newcastle, Australia. Author Mike Cole: Mike Cole is Emeritus Research Professor in Education and Equality at Bishop Grosseteste University, UK.

Inhalt

1. Militarised Neoliberalism in Colombia: Disarticulating Dissent and Articulating Consent to Neoliberal Epistemologies, Pedagogies and Ways of Life 2. Brazil and the PT as the popular face of neoliberalism: A contradictory terrain for education and the politics of knowledge 3. The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela: Education and 21st Century Socialism 4.The Alternative School of Community Organisation and Communicational Development, Barrio Pueblo Nuevo, Mérida 5.Epistemological Counter-Hegemonies from Below: Radical Educators in/and the MST and Solidarity Economy Movements 6. Decolonisation in Praxis: Critical Educators, Student Movements and Feminist Pedagogies in Colombia 7.Constructing Twenty-First Century Socialism: The Role of Radical Education