In Conversation with John Berger: Education in the Capitalist Ruins (SpringerBriefs in Education)

This book uses words, images, and materiality as linking the processes of imaginative wondering/naming/knowing, as a reminder of Berger’s educational/pedagogical skill in carrying and transporting meaning.Berger’s metaphor of the writer as a shuttle, moving back and forth between the dispossessed and the reader, conjures up writing and reading as multi-directional, weaving narrative, invention, and so on.This exploration of Berger’s contribution to educational thinking is also woven with contemporary feminist post humanist theories and cultural education, and also draws on arts-based research practices. Berger’s method of consciously weaving the organic, technical, visual, textual, mythic, economic, and political could be viewed as a precursor methodology to post humanism’s expansion of human and more-than-human learning.In line with this, this book weaves in visual works made by the author, suggestive of Berger’s own practice with photography and drawings.