A review by jdizzle
A Marxist Education by Wayne Au

5.0

This was quite a wonderful read, a suggestion from a professor a year ago I finally got around to reading and I am very glad I did. I really enjoyed the sections on Vygotsky, Lenin, and the zone of proximal development, I had previously never heard of that (though being a Marxist, I understood the importance of it in some regards), so it was very cool to see it in writing and grounded in a theorist. I am super glad I read this before starting teaching as I feel it will inform a lot if not all of my practice. I loved how the author very clearly knew what he was talking about yet never failed to lay out these complex ideas in easy to understand ways. Overall very much recommend!!