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This unfurling of neoliberalization in public schools, most often in the name of individual freedom and racial equality, consumes the poor and communities of color, preparing the bulk of our graduates for jobs in the service sector, the unstable hustle of the “gig” economy, and, for Black and Brown kids in particular, transition from hyper-disciplinary school systems to the prison system.
A Marxist Education
Wayne Au
The power cube is, in the first instance, a visual representation that captures in a single image both the different mechanisms, the different venues and the variable reach of power. It memorably portrays the idea that power in all three dimensions (relabelled as visible, hidden and invisible forms) can operate in different social or political spaces (which may be closed or invited or claimed) and at different scales or levels of action (from the household and local to national to global). The ‘mechanisms’ or ‘forms’ refer to what we have called the ‘dimensions’. Spaces are ‘opportunities, moments and channels where citizens as social actors can potentially channel challenge and change policies, discourses, decisions and relationships which affect their lives and interests’
Power: A Radical View
Steven Lukes
Man’s search for meaning is the primary motivation in his life and not a “secondary rationalization” of instinctual drives.
Man's Search for Meaning
Frankl, Viktor
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