Learning and Education for a Better World: The Role of Social Movements - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 9460919774 ISBN 13 : 9789460919770

Editeur : Brill - Sense, 2012

Synopsis

This is a book for activists, students, scholars of social movements and adult education and for the public interested in the contemporary movements of our times. From the streets of Barcelona and Athens, the public squares in Cairo, Tunis and Tripoli, the flash mobs and virtual learning of the #Occupy movement, and the shack dwellers of South Africa people around the world are organising themselves to take action against the ravages of a capitalism that serves the greedy while impoverishing the rest. Social movements have arisen or re-arisen in virtually every sector of human activity from concerns about the fate of our planet earth, to dignity for those living with HIV/AIDS, to feeding ourselves in healthier ways and survival in places of violent conflict. At the heart of each of these movements are activists and ordinary people learning how to change their lives and how to change the world. This book offers contemporary theoretical and practical insights into the learning that happens both within and outside of social movements. Social movement scholars present work linked to the arts, to organic farming, to environmental action, to grassroots activists in the Global South, to the Arab Spring, the Occupy movement, the shackdwellers movements, school reform and the role of Marx, Gramscii and Williams in understanding social movement learning. The greatest contribution of this inspiring book is to remind us that learning and education in social movements help to make a difference. Not only does this collection enable us to understand how we might theorise and historicise learning in diverse contemporary social movements, but its contributors do so with outspoken and passionate commitment to 'Learning and Education for a Better World.' - Professor Miriam Zukas, Executive Dean, Birkbeck, University of London The burning demand for such a text comes from our contemporary moment that is witness to a world where nearly everything is commercialised, marketised or commodi

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Brill - Sense
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 9460919774
• ISBN 13: 9789460919770
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 204
• Éditeur: Hall Budd L., Clover Darlene E., Crowther Jim, Scandrett Eurig
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible