Author: Katharyne MitchellPublisher: Radical Geography
ISBN: 9780745399874
Category : Capitalism and education
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Shines a light on how modern education shapes students into becoming compliant workers.
Making Workers
Author: Katharyne MitchellPublisher: Radical Geography
ISBN: 9780745399874
Category : Capitalism and education
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Shines a light on how modern education shapes students into becoming compliant workers.
Workers' Education in the Global South
Author: Linda CooperPublisher: Knowledge Economy and Educatio
ISBN: 9789004428966
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
"Workers' Education in the Global South explores the historical development of radical workers' education in South Africa as one particular strand within the broader tradition of radical adult education. Drawing on the theoretical resources of Activity Theory, Gramsci, Freire and others, it investigates the key features of workers' education as a form of pedagogy with a unique history and logic of practice, and explores how it has been shaped by its location within labour and other social movements as well as its 'southern' location within the global political economy. Successive chapters explore its counter-hegemonic but contested purposes, its knowledge practices that seek to overcome the historical divide between intellectual and manual labour, and a pedagogy which often assumes didactic forms but which retains a democratic character through its embeddedness in working class experience. It illustrates the rich processes of experiential learning that happen through day-to-day organising, in workers' cultural activity as well as through mass action. It argues that this tradition of workers' education currently stands at a crossroads, as global neoliberal market policies and post-apartheid education and training policies threaten to undermine its radical social vision, and concludes by offering ideas on how this tradition of radical workers' education might be renewed"--
Making Reform Work
Author: Robert ZemskyPublisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 0813548462
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
Making Reform Work is a practical narrative of ideas that begins by describing who is saying what about American higher educationùwho's angry, who's disappointed, and why. Most of the pleas for changing American colleges and universities that originate outside the academy are lamentations on a small number of too often repeated themes. The critique from within the academy focuses on issues principally involving money and the power of the market to change colleges and universities. Sandwiched between these perspectives is a public that still has faith in an enterprise that it really doesn't understand. Robert Zemsky, one of a select group of scholars who participated in Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings's 2005 Commission on the Future of Higher Education, signed off on the commission's report with reluctance. In Making Reform Work he presents the ideas he believes should have come from that group to forge a practical agenda for change. Zemsky argues that improving higher education will require enlisting faculty leadership, on the one hand, and, on the other, a strategy for changing the higher education system writ large. Directing his attention from what can't be done to what can be done, Zemsky provides numerous suggestions. These include a renewed effort to help students' performance in high schools and a stronger focus on the science of active learning, not just teaching methods. He concludes by suggesting a series of dislodging eventsùfor example, making a three-year baccalaureate the standard undergraduate degree, congressional rethinking of student aid in the wake of the loan scandal, and a change in the rules governing endowmentsùthat could break the gridlock that today holds higher education reform captive. Making Reform Work offers three rules for successful college and university transformation: don't vilify, don't play games, and come to the table with a well-thought-out strategy rather than a sharply worded lamentation.
The Polictical Ecology of Education
Author: David MeekPublisher: Radical Natures
ISBN: 9781949199765
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Agrarian social movements are at a crossroads. Although these movements have made significant strides in advancing the concept of food sovereignty, the reality is that many of their members remain engaged in environmentally degrading forms of agriculture, and the lands they farm are increasingly unproductive. Whether movement farmers will be able to remain living on the land, and dedicated to alternative agricultural practices, is a pressing question. The Political Ecology of Education examines the opportunities for and constraints on advancing food sovereignty in the 17 de Abril settlement, a community born out of a massacre of landless Brazilian workers in 1996. Based on immersive fieldwork over the course of seven years, David Meek makes the provocative argument that critical forms of food systems education are integral to agrarian social movements' survival. While the need for critical approaches is especially immediate in the Amazon, Meek's study speaks to the burgeoning attention to food systems education at various educational levels worldwide, from primary to postgraduate programs. His book calls us to rethink the politics of the possible within these pedagogies.
Workers' Education...
Author: Workers Education Bureau of AmericaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Labor movement
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Workers Education in the United States
Author: Workers Education Bureau of AmericaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Labor
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Workers' Education
Author: Worker's Education in the United States
Author: Workers Education Bureau of AmericaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Working class
Languages : en
Pages :
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The Promotion and Maintenance of Workers' Education
Author: Conference of Teachers in Workers' EducationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Working class
Languages : en
Pages : 118
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