Ramin Farahmandpur

Class, Ideology, and Hegemony: Rethinking Marxist Educational Theory Ramin Farahmandpur

The book discusses recent debates among Marxist scholars in the field of sociology of education. It focuses on the scholarship of Michael Apple in particular, who considered as one of the major educational theorist in the past three decades in North America. The study begins with a historical overview of the key developments in Marxist educational theory since the late 1970s. It then offers an analysis and assessment of Michael Apple¿s conceptual and theoretical contributions to the debates among Marxist and neo-Marxist educational theorists. These debates include the relevancy and importance of social class, the arguments among Marxists over the relationship between the base and the superstructure, Gramsci and Lenin's conception of hegemony, and the class identity and location of teacher. The study concludes with a number of recommendations for future research in Marxist educational theory