Hey there, everybody. Welcome back to the new Discourses podcast. I'm James Lindsay. We are

eyeballs deep in our series or mini series within a broader series of critical education theory. We

eyeballs deep in Paulo for Harry's work and in particular right now his book The Politics of

Education from 1985 and just remind everybody the politics of education is not his most famous

book. That's the pedagogy of the oppressed which came out in 1970. This 1985 book The Politics

Education is the book that broke him into the North American education scene that cemented his

work at the center of all of North American education colleges of education in particular

where he is the third most cited source in the humanities and social sciences overall. Very influential

and I'm trying to make the broader point that basically all of our kids go to Paulo for

Harry's schools so it's very important for us to understand what this man's work has done in

terms of creating a revolution in education cannot be overstated in its catastrophe. In the previous

episode of the podcast we went through the first half of chapter six of The Politics of Education. The

previous episode was chapter five the previous one before that was three and four before that was

one and two before that was two podcasts in a row splitting in half the introduction to this book

by Paulo for Harry's evangelist Henry Giroux who brought his work to North America in large part

and so in the previous episode I'm it's too unwieldy now to kind of unpack all of what Paulo

for Harry's about and what this book is about at the beginning of every podcast we're going to spend

45 minutes talking about all the previous episodes and this is only going to expand so I'm not

going to do that here I'm going to just link right off and say we just talked about the first half

of chapter six and the first half of chapter six um Paulo for Harry explained what I describe as

the mark his marksification of education he doesn't call it that of course but what I'm saying is

that Paulo for Harry marxified if you will he made Marxist education itself this is much bigger than

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