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In Conversation with John Berger

In Conversation with John Berger Education in the Capitalist Ruins

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In Conversation with John Berger

Education in the Capitalist Ruins

Victoria de Rijke

Education / Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects

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.

Dr. Victoria de Rijke is Emerita Professor in Arts & Education at Middlesex University in London, United Kingdom, where she has over 40 years’ experience in schools, undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and learning. She is Co-chief Editor of Children’s Literature in Education Journal, and her research and publication is transdisciplinary, across the fields of literature, the visual and performing arts, collage, children’s literature, media, pedagogy and play, through the associations of metaphor.


Publication Date: 29 May 2026
Publisher: Springer Nature Singapore
Imprint: Springer
ISBN-13: 9789819569304
Format: Paperback / softback
Page Count: 121

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