On Class, Race, and Educational Reform: Contested Perspectives

On Class, Race, and Educational Reform provokes new dialogue between Marxists, critical race theory scholars, and other race-inspired educational theorists with the aim of countering racism and class inequalities. The book opens with a lead chapter by Howard Ryan, a doctoral student with a background in teaching and labor organizing, that substantively engages questions of class, race, and educational reform. In response to the opening chapter, educational theorists from Germany, South Africa, the UK, and the USA, provide insightful and penetrating responses highlighting the differences and similarities in perspectives. The responses show how educators can overcome theoretical differences to create international collaborations and educational campaigns of solidarity that counter the treacherous impact of racism and class inequalities in the classroom and beyond. The book includes a Foreword by Stephen Brookfield (University of St Thomas, USA) and an Afterword by Cheryl Matias (University of Kentucky, USA).

Antonia Darder holds the Leavey Presidential Endowed Chair of Ethics and Moral Leadership at Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, USA, and is Distinguished Visiting Professor of Education at the University of Johannesburg. She is a distinguished international Freirean scholar, and her recent publications include Freire and Education (2014) and Reinventing Paulo Freire: A Pedagogy of Love (2017).

Cleveland Hayes II is Associate Dean of Academic Affairs and Professor of Urban Teacher Education at Indiana University, USA. He is Vice President of the Critical Race Studies in Education Association and co-editor of Unhooking from Whiteness (2016).

Howard Ryan is a doctoral student in Sociology at West Virginia University, USA. He has a background in teaching and labor organizing and is the author of Educational Justice: Teaching and Organizing against the Corporate Juggernaut.