Ferrero, David
Antonio Gramsci and His Relevance for American Public Education
«The rhetorical strategies of the New Right have correlated the goals of the Left with an increase in the power bloc & a consequential decrease in the ability to exercise control over one's own life. Criticizing the ways through which the system seeks to satisfy the needs of the people (i.e., materialism & individualism), the Left has sought to devalue these needs rather than creating alternatives ways of fulfilling them. The hegemonic process, as defined by Antonio Gramsci, seems to allow the culture of dominant groups to be maintained, with a reduced need for coercion of subordinate groups. The efforts of the intellectual Left to engage in public discourse have focused more on tearing down US cultural values, those of the dominant social groups, than empowering their audiences.... » (M.P.).
| Language | eng |
| Names |
[author] Ferrero, David |
| Subjects |
Educazione (Pedagogia)
Egemonia Subalterno
Education
Hegemony Subaltern |
