GRAMSCI and ADULT EDUCATION

Yıl 2019, Cilt: 6 Sayı: 6, 537 - 542, 30.06.2019

Ziya Toprak Volkan Yücel

Öz

Gramsci’s significance
for education lies in two realms. First, his notion of hegemony provides a way
of understanding in which informal educators function and it gives us the
possibility of critique and transformation. His theory of organic intellectuals
provides a more detailed place of adult education in his thought. The
intellectuals have a crucial role in creating counter-hegemony. The second
realm is in a wider context in which he discusses the traditional education and
schooling and describes the education for the proletariat. This essay will
focus on the importance of Gramsci’s thoughts on adult education. To do this,
the essay firstly will deal with his philosophy and political thoughts which
has a close relationship with his ideas on adult education. Then, this
relationship and his theory of education and intellectuals will be elaborated.

Anahtar Kelimeler

Gramsci, Education, Adult Education, Hegemony, Civil Society

Kaynakça

• Adamson, W. (1980). Hegemony and Revolution: Antonio Gramsci's Political and Cultural Theory. Los Angeles: University of California.
• Femia, J. V. (1981). Gramsci's Political Thought: Hegemony, Consciousness, and the Revolutionary Process. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
• Forgacs, D. (1988). An Antonio Gramsci Reader: Selected Writings (In introduction). New York: Shocken Books.
• Gramsci, A. (1971). Selections from the Prison Notebooks (Ed. by Q. Hoare & G. N. Smith). New York: Lawrence and Wishart.
• Gramsci, A. (1988). An Antonio Gramsci Reader: Selected Writings (Ed. by D. Forgacs). New York: Shocken Books.
• Gramsci, A. (1916). Socialists and Education: Men or Machines? Piedmont edition of Avanti, 24.12.1916, under the banner “Socialists and Education”, http://www.sozialistische-klassiker.org/dir/gra.html
• Laclau, E. & Mouffe, C. (1985) Hegemony and Socialist Strategy: Towards a Radical Democratic Politics. London: Verso.
• Martin, J. (1998). Gramsci’s Political Analysis: A Critical Introduction. New York: Macmillan.
• Marx, K. (2000). A Critique of the German Ideology. Online Version: Marx/Engels Internet Archive. https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/Marx_The_German_Ideology.pdf.
• Mayo, P. (1999). Gramsci, Freire and Adult Education. London: Zed Books.