Toward a broader dialectic: joining Marxism with Mailer to forge a multilectics that advances teaching and learning |
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Authors: | Gene Fellner |
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Institution: | 1. Department of Education, Lehman College, New York, NY, USA.genefellner@genefellnerart.com |
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Abstract: | I contrast the lenses that Norman Mailer, Herbert Marcuse, and Karl Marx bring to their analyses of social life, exploring the contributions and limits of their respective approaches. I then propose what I call a “multilectical” theoretical lens that encompasses the strengths of all three and leans on the insights of post-Marxist theorists. The multilectical lens is then applied to an event that transpired in a severely underperforming middle school. |
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Keywords: | dialectics pedagogy emotions sociocultural theory Marx |
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