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Learning in Social Action: A Contribution to Understanding Informal Education - Couverture souple

Foley, Griff

 
9781856496841: Learning in Social Action: A Contribution to Understanding Informal Education
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1856496848 ISBN 13 : 9781856496841
Editeur : Zed Books Ltd, 1999

Synopsis

This book seeks to increase our understanding of those non-educational contexts and informal circumstances in which people learn. Adult educators, Professor Foley argues, ought not to neglect the importance of the incidental learning which can take place, in particular, when people become involved in voluntary organisations, social struggles, and political activity of every kind.

In developing the argument that such involvement can provide extraordinarily powerful learning opportunities, he uses case studies from the United States of America, Australia as well as Third World countries - Brazil and Zimbabwe - and embracing very diverse environmental, women‘s, worker and political struggles. He is particularly interested in how involvement in social action can help people to unlearn dominant, oppressive ideologies and discourses and learn instead oppositional, liberatory ones, even if such processes of emancipatory learning are inevitably complex and contradictory. He relates these processes of informal learning in contested contexts to current thinking in adult education and points the way to a somewhat different, and more radical, agenda in adult education theory and practice.

For adult educators, community workers and others working with socially engaged citizens, the insights and lessons of this book ought to be especially useful as they try to develop their own practice in such contexts.

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À propos de l'auteur

Griff Foley is director of the Centre for Popular Education, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia.

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Éditeur
Zed Books Ltd
Date d'édition
1999
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1856496848
ISBN 13 
9781856496841
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
176
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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