Challenges E D Hirsch's assumptions about culture and education. Calling for a broader and more democratic vision than Hirsch, the author critiques Hirsch's legacy up through the conservative educational agenda for education, which, he argues, denies, not only the United States' diversity, but its democratic traditions of democratic participation.

Written by renowned British and American educational theorists, Marxism Against Postmodernism in Educational Theory--a substantially revised edition of the original 1999 work-- examines the infusion of postmodernism and theories of postmodernity into educational theory, policy, and research.