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As the (relative) impoverishment of the middle classes in Western societies brings the “social question” again to center stage, for the first time national social justice agendas are sharply pitted against transnational and transcultural solidarity.
Capitalism on Edge
Albena Azmanova;
Reasonable individual responses (like restlessness) to repressive institutional conditions like disassociation from the environment, extreme boredom, and inability to find relevance in the assignment have become the basis for the identification of disease and the prescription of drugs. Moreover, __the medical pathologizing of students is interwoven with neoliberal ideology in education in which knowledge, learning, and intelligence are understood through the register of economic competition, social mobility, and opportunity.__
Education in a Time Between Worlds
Zachary Stein
As an orientation on understanding the world, standpoint thus openly acknowledges that __the social location of the oppressed and marginalized (as defined by historical, social, cultural, and institutional contexts) is the best vantage point for understanding society because it can provide a clearer, more truthful view of how a society functions.__
A Marxist Education
Wayne Au
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