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This is the first full-length study of the life and career of Brian Simon (1915-2002), leading Marxist intellectual and historian of education in twentieth-century Britain. Using documentary sources that have only recently become publicly available, it reveals the remarkably broad range of Simon's life as student, soldier and school teacher, Communist Party activist, and educational academic, campaigner and reformer. In a sympathetic biography that yet retains critical distance, the authors analyse Simon's contribution to Marxism and the Communist Party. They explore the influence of both on his work as a historian of education and trace the significance of his Marxist beliefs, political associations and historical approach to the cause of educational reform. In so doing, they consider the full nature and limitations of Simon's achievements in his struggle for education. Unlike many Marxist scholars he remained loyal to the Communist Party in the 1950s, which damaged his reputation as a public intellectual. Nevertheless, his support for comprehensive education helped to promote egalitarian educational reforms in Britain, although he was later unable to provide sufficient resistance to the 1988 Education Reform Act and to a decline in the position of the comprehensive schools. In all this, the significance of Simon's family, and especially his relationship with his wife Joan is to the fore. Joan and Brian forged a formidable 60-year partnership, in politics and the Communist Party as well as in life, that lasted until Brian's death in January 2002.  Praise for Brian Simon and the Struggle for Education 'a very interesting book for historians of education and the best overall work about the thought and work of Brian Simon.' Historia y Memoria de la Educación

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Using archival materials never previously accessible to Western scholars, Michael David-Fox analyzes Bolshevik Party educational and research initiatives in higher learning after 1917. His fresh consideration of the era of the New Economic Policy and cultural politics after the Revolution explains how new communist institutions rose to parallel and rival conventional higher learning from the Academy of Sciences to the universities. Beginning with the creation of the first party school by intellectuals on the island of Capri in 1909, David-Fox argues, the Bolshevik cultural project was tightly linked to party educational institutions. He provides the first account of the early history and politics of three major institutions founded after the Revolution: Sverdlov Communist University, where the quest to transform everyday life gripped the student movement; the Institute of Red Professors, where the Bolsheviks sought to train a new communist intellectual or red specialist; and the Communist Academy, headquarters for a planned, collectivist, proletarian science.

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Au lendemain de leur prise de pouvoir fin 1917, les bolcheviks lancent deux chantiers destinés à changer en profondeur l’école russe : la polytechnisation qui doit, dans la lignée des écrits de Marx et Engels, réconcilier instruction et travail à la production, et la prolétarisation qui doit favoriser les masses laborieuses dans l’accès aux études – une forme de discrimination positive. Les hésitations, puis la réaction et les bouleversements du stalinisme et de la guerre mettent entre parenthèses ces deux axes de la politique soviétique. Ils refont surface après 1953, alors que des débats sur l’enseignement reprennent dans la sphère publique. Successeur de Staline, Nikita Khrouchtchev impose une perestroïka (refondation) de l’école et de l’université qui vise autant l’avènement du communisme par le respect du travail physique et la promotion des ouvriers et des paysans, que la fin de l’agitation étudiante née suite au « Rapport secret » de 1956, et l’amélioration du recrutement dans certaines branches de la production industrielle et agricole, marquées par la diminution du travail forcé. Le 24 décembre 1958, après une vaste campagne officielle, est votée une loi destinée à « rapprocher l’école et la vie » – réactivation d’un slogan des années 1920. Mais derrière l’unanimité de façade, des désaccords ont vu le jour pendant sa discussion. Les acteurs de l’enseignement et de la recherche – responsables administratifs, pédagogues, universitaires, membres de l’Académie des sciences - ont pesé sur la réforme, atténuant sa dimension idéologique au profit d’une vision technocratique du projet soviétique. Comment s’est déroulé le processus de décision et comment s’explique le faible impact de la loi sur la démocratisation scolaire en URSS ? En quoi l’opposition à la réforme a-t-elle permis à des scientifiques influents de mettre en place des filières d’élite parallèles (« écoles spéciales », université de Novossibirsk), au nom d’un idéal de méritocratie savante ? Que…

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Higher education is increasingly unable to engage usefully with global emergencies, as its functions are repurposed for value. Discourses of entrepreneurship, impact and excellence, realised through competition and the market, mean that academics and students are increasingly alienated from themselves and their work. This book applies Marx’s concept of alienation to the realities of academic life in the Global North, in order to explore how the idea of public education is subsumed under the law of value. In a landscape of increased commodification of higher education, the book explores the relationship between alienation and crisis, before analysing how academic knowledge, work, identity and life are themselves alienated. Finally, it argues that through indignant struggle, another world is possible, grounded in alternative forms of organising life and producing socially-useful knowledge, ultimately requiring the abolition of academic labour. This pioneering work will be of interest and value to all those working in the higher education sector, as well as those concerned with the rise of neoliberalism and marketization within universities. Richard Hall is Professor of Education and Technology at De Montfort University, UK, and a UK National Teaching Fellow.

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