A Critical Examination of Neo-Marxist and Postmodernist Theories as Applied to Education

Contents 1 Introduction 1.1 Critical Theory, Postmodernism and Critical pedagogies 1.2 Education as an agency of reproduction 1.3 Critical pedagogies - Counter-education or new forms of oppression 2 From agents of reproduction to agents of change 2.1 The teacher as an agent of political change 2.2 The feminist pedagogies 2.3 The human as wholeness in critical pedagogy 3 In consideration of the subject 3.1 The humanist subject in Neo-Marxist pedagogy 3.2 The none-subject in postmodern pedagogies 3.3 Can these perceptions of the Subject contribute to a liberating education? 4 Capitalist oppression as portrayed in Neo-Marxist pedagogies 4.1 Visions of liberation in Neo-Marxist pedagogies 5 Oppression and liberation in postcolonial discourse 5.1 Perceptions of oppression in postcolonial theory 5.2 Perceptions of liberation in postcolonial theories 6 Multicultural oppression and the possibility of liberation in postmodern pedagogies 6.1 Perspectives of liberation in Postmodern Multiculturalism 6.2 The postmodern pessimistic approach 6.3 The postmodern utopian approach 7 Can Neo-Marxist and postmodern pedagogies truly "liberate"? 7.1 The Neo-Marxist pedagogies 7.2 The postmodern pedagogies 8 Epilogue - steps toward a future possibility 8.1 Lack of current understanding of the global context and the subject's possibilities 8.2 The contradiction between political goals and subject autonomy 8.3 Critical pedagogies' perception of the future 8.4 An open dialogue toward the creation of a humanized future education