Every hegemonic relationship is necessarily an educational relationship

Evidence

But the educational relationship should not be restricted to the field of the strictly “scholastic” relationships by means of which the new generation comes into contact with the old and absorbs its experiences and its historically necessary values and “matures” and develops a personality of its own which is historically and culturally superior. This form of relationship exists throughout society as a whole and for every individual relative to other individuals. It exists between intellectual and non-intellectual sections of the population, between the rulers and the ruled, elites and their followers, leaders [dirigenti ] and led, the vanguard and the body of the army. Every relationship of “hegemony” is necessarily an educational relationship and occurs not only within a nation, between the various forces of which the nation is composed, but in the international and world-wide field, between complexes of national and continental civilisations. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1253

Categorization

Category: Definitional Content

• DEFINE: This is the key definition linking hegemony to pedagogy — ruling and ruled relate as teacher and pupil.
• XREF: Directly feeds the reader’s toolkit: hegemonic discourse (including Islamophobic common sense) operates through educational relationships across all of society, not just schools.

Related

• Schooling matters for hegemony because intellectuals depend on it economically (similarity 0.82)
• Hegemony is forged through cultural and ideological struggle, not just force. (similarity 0.81)
• Hegemony must be perpetually won and can be lost. (similarity 0.81)
• Hegemony lets ideologies operate without any locatable authority. (similarity 0.80)
• Hegemony means intellectuals rule by consent while dictatorship rules by force (similarity 0.80)
• Hegemonic democracy permits molecular movement from led to leading groups (similarity 0.80)
• Hegemony is a shifting power balance, never total victory or domination. (similarity 0.80)
• Challenging a monopoly on pedagogy is a route to building hegemony. (similarity 0.80)
• Ruling-class unity is forged through the organic ties between State and civil society (similarity 0.79)
• Ruling class hegemony is secured through cultural and ideological leadership across civil society (similarity 0.79)
• Hegemony requires a separation between civil and political society (similarity 0.79)
• Hegemony means the party internalizing State rules as moral conduct (similarity 0.79)
• Hegemonic power universalizes ruling class interest into a national will. (similarity 0.79)
• Hegemonic leadership is exercised by a historic bloc, not a whole class (similarity 0.79)
• Dominant classes rule by framing alternatives within their ideological limits, not by dictating minds. (similarity 0.79)