A Critical Reassessment of Marxian Base- Superstructure Explanation of the Role of Education in Social Change
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https://doi.org/10.11575/jet.v20i2.44179Abstract
This article examines how four major versions of neo-Marxism try to overcome the base-superstructure thesis of the political economists of education. The approach here is to search out the implicit philosophical assumptions in terms of social ontology and epistemology and the related theory of education of four major versions of neo-Marxism, and then to examine the internal coherence between those aspects within each theory. The analysis of these neo-Marxian theories reveals that though, with the exception of structuralism, they have been successful in providing a way out of the deterministic base-superstructure doctrine, they reveal several theoretical lacunae, especially in their attempt to link education to a radical political praxis.
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