Antonio Gramsci - The Common School
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- Dr. David M. Peña-Guzmán explores Antonio Gramsci's theory of education as laid out in the section of The Prison Notebooks entitled "On Education." There, Gramsci explains the kind of education that is needed to produce Marxist intellectuals who can meaningfully contribute to the liberation of the dominated classes independently of their own class upbringing. It is through what Gramsci calls "The Common School" that society can produce citizens who do not simply re-produce the very class antagonisms they inherit from the past.
You articulated the subject clearly and left me with questions for my own context. Thank you.
Excellent presentation. I think that is the case, knowing or critical knowledge is a threat to the system, preparing people to be use in the companies or the corporations is the key to keep the working class off from engaging critically in understanding their conditions. Just like what we see in modern day capitalism.
Yep. Taught what to think, not how to think, much less to think in a way that emphasizes understanding, challenging ideas, empathizing with fellow citizens
Capitalism is a derogatory term that is seen as fascism, but includes free market trade.
I believe fiat currency is a large source of the failure of the free market. I believe critical thought has some value. When it becomes the only way of thinking, it gets out of hand very quickly, chaotic. Chaos always invites tyrants.
Some criticism is necessary for growth, maybe even a lot of it. Critical Consciousness, the evolution of Gramsci by Freire, forbids advancing structures because they further oppression. With no positive activity, an opening for the next tyrrant will be the result.
I say raise the privilege of the marginalized, not through hand outs, but hands up.
I suggest this to avoid ushering something much worse in, because of a lack of patience.
I hope you are not offended by this, I tried to be totally rational.
Wonderful synopsis of a dense text. Makes me want to delve into Gramsci again.
Same! I've been wanting to dive back into Marx and theory/ philosophy of the early 20th century again and this inspired me to go ahead and pull out those texts lol
The thing that struck me the most is his claim that school should supercede the family in its core educational role. I feel like this is generally underdiscussed. We can't have an emancepatory project for education without leaving the assumption of the family's role unexamined.
You are an excellent communicator, David. These ideas were foreign to me before I clicked on this talk, and I'm sure they would have remained so if it weren't for your lucid and enthusiastic presentation of them. Thank you mucho! .. Also, it's teachers like you who make the humanities something special. I have an english degree from a plain ol' state school, and I can say with certainty that every time I was lucky enough to have a professor who was excited -- the way you are! -- my life improved while I was in that class. Keep up the great work!
Thank you! Your videos are accessible and pleasingly educational
I would love a transcript of this. This was a very good summation.
This is educational content taken to the form of an Art.
You explain these concepts so clearly. Wow🙌
You should do a video Dewey, bell hooks, and Paulo Freire on education next!
OMG this channel on Freire would be wonderful. Seconded!
Thank you for this amazing discussion
wonderful presentation, really great video!
thank you for this explanation of such a (to me) difficult text! :) I think it´s such an interesting and inspiring quest to come up with new systems of humanities that might fit our modern societies and different cultures better. 😄Especially since Gramsci seems to only consider school in Italy...🤔
Que bueno estuvo eso mi socio 👍
Liberated from the demand of work. This is exactly the point, liberation from work because it is not necessary from an existential point of view. We have been forced to do it systematically from the system itself. Some have to work as slaves just because others want to enjoy this moment of consciousness. Why not us too?
Because economies and societies need people to work for them to function
@Brandon Jade haaaa, yes, to a certain degree, but without the monetary system or anything else that creates a condition for exploitation. At the same time, we created a much more noticeable problem for us from an existential point of view, the degree of technology and knowledge, and the social structure made us as if we were not venerable to the natural world, we exploded in number and pushing other species away and created a lot of waste and go through a lot natural resources, so whatever we do has no absolute positive value to begin with. So I think it is a much more complicated thing to think about as a whole.
Yes. Good summary. Gram goes deep and is hard to sumarize but yeah. This get the point across.
Maybe I’m just too new to these ideas, but why do people have to educated about their own condition? Shouldn’t individuals be allowed to conceive of their own condition, irrespective of education? Human existence does not begin or end in school and all children should develop according to their natural characteristics.
What a clear and concise synopsis🙏 I especially appreciate the historical and philosophical context. Imho bad ideas like this from the authoritarian left, along with other bad ideas in philosophy, need context to extract their insights and value.
As a side note, I draw a distinction between the humanities and a classical education, and think the humanities directly apply to daily life - work, family, relationships, and more even if they’re not taught that way. They’re easy to justify on practical grounds from my pov.
But wouldn't there have to be a communist / socialist government in place to be able to create such a system of education?
The Italian education system is very close to this model at least in the basic principles. Despite its two main shortcomings: it's heavily underfunded because ordo-liberalism in Europe pushed Italian governments to cut on public services and school was hit the most; teachers are heavily under-paid and pedagogically under-prepared (they are not directly prepared to teach; they tend to graduate in anything from physics to philosophy and then teach the closest discipline taught in school; only teacher for primary and elementary school are prepared).
Despite all that, simply the private option is incredibly small and the pedagogy puts more effort on inclusion rather than on competition. In my class there was a girl with both parents unemployed and the daughter of the regional chief of Confindustria (the national association of entrepreneurs) and all the degrees in between, without that determining results. I think in general it would make a lot of difference if school were evenly financed in the whole territory, the private sector would be kept incredibly small and merely compensatory. Then the European university system is enough to not spark further differences in opposition to the bestiality we see in the US college and especially Ivy League system.
It could be improved as a system: more funding in general, keeping the school open for extra-curricular activities the whole day, working on a better profiling of education (at least since you're 14 one could start pushing you to take advanced classes in what you're more proficient at without neglecting a common basic education in history, language, English, math and science).
Of course, if you ask Italians, they will tell you how much better is "abroad" (ask them where precisely, and they will have close to no answer or very politicized and misinformed ones). But truth is, Italian school was created by our Constitution which was written in that part by communists and socialists. And as such it is structurally more egalitarian than not.
So yes, mostly it would require a social-democrat lenient government at least to go there. But every single educator can implement certain principles into his own practices even within a less egalitarian/inclusive system and make a big difference for their students.
Not workers like parents, but slaves.