Learning and education for a better world
Subtitle: the role of social movements
By: edited by Budd L. Hall [and others]
Series: International issues in adult education -- v. 10; International issues in adult education -- v. 10.
Publisher: Sense Publishers; BRILL
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Rotterdam, Netherlands; Boston [Mass.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 188
ISBN-13: 9789460919787; 9789460919770; 9789460919794
Subjects: Educational sociology; Adult education; Social movements
Description: "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."--Publisher's website.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Internet Archive - 2

Internet Archive 2
Table of contents: title: Historicising and theorising, movement education and learning.; title: "We are poor, not stupid" : learning from autonomous grassroots social movements in South Africa  -- Anne Harley; title: Learning to resist : hegemonic practice, informal learning and social movements  -- Elisabeth Steinklammer; title: Social learning in environmental justice struggles : political ecology of knowledge  -- Eurig Scandrett; title: Reconnecting intellect and feeling : Marx, Gramsci, Williams and the educator's role  -- Jim Crowther and Emilio Lucio-Villegas; title: Forty years of popular education in Latin America : lessons for social movements today  -- Liam Kane; title: Learning through cultural struggle.; title: Aesthetics, society and social movement learning  -- Darlene E. Clover; title: Composting the imagination in popular education  -- Astrid von Kotze.; title: Radical aesthetics : Ken Loach as social movement educator  -- Stephen Brookfield; title: Changing the world.; title: "A giant human hashtag" : learning and the #Occupy movement  -- Budd L. Hall; title: Building counter-power from the ground up : contesting NGOisation through social movement learning and knowledge production  -- Aziz Choudry; title: Inch by inch, row by row : social movement learning on Three Oaks organic farm  -- Catherine Etmanski; title: Tweeting history : an inquiry into aspects of social media in the Egyptian revolution -- Mark Malone.