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The 1970s saw landmark work in Marxist educational theory. The influence of Marxism in education research has waned over recent decades but has been renewed in research by, for instance, John Marsh and David Blacker. This paper examines these new theoretical developments.
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The paper offers an original take on the new structural analyses of class and education and their Marxist antecedents.
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This paper reviews new developments in Marxist educational theory while also offering its own original analysis of historical shifts in writing on education, social class and social reproduction.
Paul Warmington
University of Warwick
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This page is a summary of: Dystopian Social Theory and Education, Educational Theory, May 2015, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/edth.12112.
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