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Podcast: New Discourses
Episode: Education's New Marxist Commitments
Description: The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Episode 58
Critical Education Theory Series, Part 1
Over the last fifty years, a monumental change in the North American education systems has been taking place. The name for that change is "the Critical Turn in Education," which is, in brief, how Critical Theory has crept into education and education theory (pedagogy) and slowly perverted it from within. The madness in today's schools, then, is not some unhappy accident of the last year or even decade but the product of a dedicated march into the schooling institutions by Marxist, neo-Marxist, and Identity Marxist Theorists who...