Marx and Education is the first assessment of the educational thought of Karl Marx and its later influence. Marx's thinking on education touches on many still current issues: about personal development, the nature of learning, and the ultimate aims of education, as well as the relations between the school and society. Robin Small explores Marx's approach to each of these issues and in relating them to later developments brings the story up to the present day.

Robin Small is an Associate Professor in the School of Education, University of Auckland, New Zealand. His previous books include Nietzsche in Context (Ashgate, 2001), A Hundred Years of Phenomenology (Ashgate, 2001) and Nietzsche and Rée: A Star Friendship (Oxford University Press, 2005).

Contents: Preface; Acknowledgements; Part I: Educational Theory: Human nature; Alienation; Praxis; Historical materialism; Ideology. Part II: Educational Practice: Problems and programmes; Polytechnical training; Work, play and school; State education; Socialist schooling. Conclusion: Marx's educational legacy; Bibliography; Index.