Educational Commons in Theory and Practice

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction: Toward an Educational Commons

   • Alexander J. Means, Derek R. Ford, Graham B. Slater

   Pages 1-22

3. Commons as Actuality, Ethos, and Horizon

   • Max Haiven

   Pages 23-37

4. Reframing the Common: Race, Coloniality, and Pedagogy

   • Noah De Lissovoy

   Pages 39-54

5. Reassembling the Natural and Social Commons

   • Jesse Bazzul, Sara Tolbert

   Pages 55-73

6. Toward an Elaboration of the Pedagogical Common

   • Gregory N. Bourassa

   Pages 75-93

7. Impersonal Education and the Commons

   • Tyson E. Lewis

   Pages 95-108

8. #BlackLivesMatter: Racialization, the Human, and Critical Public Pedagogies of Race

   • Nathan Snaza, Jennifer A. Sandlin

   Pages 109-125

9. A Question of Knowledge: Radical Social Movements and Self-Education

   • Mark Howard

   Pages 127-143

10. Educational Enclosure and the Existential Commons: Settler Colonialism, Racial Capitalism, and the Problem of the Human

    • Anita Juárez, Clayton Pierce

    Pages 145-166

11. Common Relationality: Antiracist Solidarity, Racial Embodiment, and the Problem of Self-Possession

    • Gardner Seawright

    Pages 167-187

12. Education and the Civil Commons

    • Jennifer Sumner

    Pages 189-207

13. Educating the Commons Through Cooperatively Run Schools

    • David I. Backer

    Pages 209-229

14. Big Talk in the Little City: Grassroots Resistance by and for the Common/s

    • Mark Stern, Khuram Hussain

    Pages 231-248

15. Revitalizing the Common(s) in New Mexico: A Pedagogical Consideration of Socially Engaged Art

    • Michelle Gautreaux

    Pages 249-269

16. Back Matter

    Pages 271-274

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In this volume, critical scholars and educational activists explore the intricate dynamics between the enclosure of global commons and radical visions of a common social future that breaks through the logics of privatization, ecological degradation, and dehumanizing social hierarchies in education. In its institutional and informal configurations alike, education has been identified as perhaps the key stake in this struggle. Insisting on the urgency of an education that breaks free of the bonds of enclosure, the essays included in this volume weave together bright threads of radical thought into a vivid tapestry illustrating a critical framework for enacting a global educational commons.

• Educational Commons
• Educational theory
• critical pedagogy
• neoliberalism
• Global Education

“This is a rich collective resource for thinking differently about education. It is the very demonstration of our cooperative powers to teach and learn from each other directly in a social experiment that escapes the enclosures of the university, the college, and the school. This collection is proof of our undiminished powers of study together.” (Stefano Harney, Professor of Strategic Management Education, Singapore Management University)

“The editors have collated a remarkably diverse range of contributions all pointing at the struggles against education enclosures, and the powers of educational commons. The proponents of the ‘edufactory’ are finally finding its critical nemesis.” (Massimo De Angelis, Professor of Political Economy, University of East London, UK)

• SUNY Buffalo State, Buffalo, USA

  Alexander J. Means

• DePauw University, Greencastle, USA

  Derek R. Ford

• University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA

  Graham B. Slater

Alexander J. Means is Assistant Professor of Social and Psychological Foundations of Education, State University of New York College at Buffalo, USA.

Derek R. Ford is Assistant Professor of Education Studies, DePauw University, USA.

Graham B. Slater is Marriner S. Eccles Fellow in Political Economy at the University of Utah, USA. His research has appeared in theJournal of Education Policy, Educational Studies, and The Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies.