Ford, Derek R., Ph.D.

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Education Studies

Associate Professor of Education Studies, Chair of the Education Studies Department and Coordinator of the Peace and Conflict Studies Program

I am associate professor of philosophy and history of education and teach courses on how education has, does, and can help us imagine, struggle for, and enact liberatory ways of being together in the world. My courses depend on and inform my research interests, which are quite varied but generally focus on the relationships between education and political movements. If you like podcasts, I think the brilliant hosts of helped me articulate the larger picture of my work .

I've written a few books, the latest of which is (and you can hear about on ). Until the next round of cutbacks come, I am deputy editor of the Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies and associate editor of Postdigital Science and Education. My work appears in a range of scholarly journals and popular outlets. I hosted and co-created the podcast series, , which takes listeners through volume 1 of Marx's magnum opus and is available on all major streaming platforms, and helped write and produce the mini-documentary, "."

What moves my research and teaching also moves my organizing. I am the Coordinator of , Education Department Chair at the , and an organizer with the the and the , among other groups. I also serve as the editor of and chair of the 's education department.

You can see my cv .

CLASSES

EDUC 170: Foundations of education
EDUC 197: We can't breathe: Identity, capitalism, and air conditions
EDUC 197: Urban revolutions: Space, capitalism, and social change
EDUC 197: Art, politics, and education
EDUC 197: The politics of sound: Education and the struggle over listening
EDUC 223: Deconstructing difference
EDUC 275: Radical philosophy and education
EDUC 290: Education, space, and urban revolution
EDUC 290: Art, politics, and education: Unlearning and the aesthetics of struggle
EDUC 325: History of American education
EDUC 360: Political economy of schools
EDUC 390: Pedagogy in the 'post-truth' era
EDUC 390: Philosophy and alternative educational spaces
EDUC 390: Critical disability studies: Disordering education and society
EDUC 480: Educational research
EDUC 490: Senior research seminar
UNIV 183: (North) Korea in Japan: Colonialism and education
UNIV 184: The Baltimore Rebellion: Anatomy of an uprising

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
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Co-authored with students

Books

Edited books

Recent peer-reviewed journal artices
  • (2023). From "authentic" to actual marxist educational theory: Advancing revolutionary pedagogies. International Critical Thought, 13(4), 506-524.
  • (2023). Art, education and the actuality of revolution: Althusser's aesthetic materialism. International Journal of Education Through Art, 19(2), 261-273.
  • (2023). Sonic directions to the urban student: Lyotard, the Megalopolis, and not listening as pedagogy. Contemporary Music Review, 42(2), 426-440.
  • (2023). Rhythmanalysis and the revolutionary rupture of detournement: Lefebvre and the pedagogical rhythms of post-fordism. Postdigital Science and Education, 5(20, 440-454.
Recent podcast interviews
  • (2023). The actuality of revolution: Marxist education and the commons. .
  • (2023). Breaking through U.S. propaganda on North Korea. .
  • (2023). Political imagination and teaching the actuality of revolution. .
  • (2023). Teaching the actuality of revolution: Unlearning, aesthetics, and the sensations of struggle. .
  • (2022). Jandric, P., Peters, M.A., Ford, D.R., & Hayes, S. (2022). Biodigitalism and postdigital futures. .
  • (2022). Paulo Freire's legacy: Rethinking how we teach and learn. .
  • (2021). Marx and Capital with Derek Ford. .
  • (2021). Understanding Marx's Capital with Liberation School. .
  • (2021). Reading Capital with Derek Ford. .
  • (2020). MSM speculation debunked as Kim Jung-Un healthy. .
  • (2020). 'Inherent anarchy:' U.S. capitalist housing system leaves 1.5 million students homeless. .
Selected popular articles
  • Ford, D. (2024). ". Shaka Shakur Freedom Campaign. (Mandarin translation ).
  • Grillo, J., & Ford, D. (2024). . Hampton Institute.
  • Ford, D. (2023). . Black Agenda Report (reprinted in Hampton Institute, Monthly Review, New Cold War, originally appeared in Liberation School).
  • Ford, D. (2023). . PESA Agora.
  • Ford, D. (2023). . The International Magazine (Japanese translation published in ).
  • Ford, D. (2023). . Peace, Land, and Bread (reprinted in International Manifesto Group, Hampton Institute, New Cold War).
  • Ford, D. (2022). ." Monthly Review.
  • Ford, D. (2021). . Orinoco Tribune.
  • Ford, D. (2021). . Hampton Institute.
  • Springer, D., & Ford, D. (2021). . Liberation School.
  • Brown, N., & Ford, D. (2021). . Black Agenda Report.
  • Majidi, M., & Ford, D. (2021). Liberation School (Türkçe translation published in ).
  • Ford, D. (2020). . Hampton Institute.
  • Ford, D., & Malott, C. (2020). . Liberation School. (Portuguese translation printed in ).
  • Ford, D. (2019). . Aspeers.
  • Ford, D. (2017). . Hampton Institute.
  • Ford, D. (2015). . Black Agenda Report.
  • Ford, D. (2015). . Aggregate.
  • Pfohl, S., & Ford, D. (2015). (online curated exhibition). Oranbeg Press.

EDUCATION

Ph.D., Cultural Foundations of Education, Syracuse University, 2015
M.S., Cultural Foundations of Education, Syracuse University, 2012
B.A., Peace Studies, Goucher College, 2008

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