Radical approaches to adult education : a reader
Tom Lovett
1988
1988
Abstract
Presents a broad historical and theoretical perspective on radical adult education. It also explores a range of contemporary issues and initiatives with examples of practice from a number of countries.
Part 1: Perspectives - historical and theoretical: "really useful knowledge" 1790-1850: memories for education in the 1980s, Richard Johnson the long search for the working class: socialism and the education of adults, 1850-1930, Paul F. Armstrong domesticity and its discontents: feminism and adult education in past time 1870-1920, Sallie Westwood et al their contributions to education for socialism, Paula Allman adult education in radical US social and ethnic movements: from case studies to typology to explanation, Rolland G. Paulston et al. Part 2 Contemporary initiatives community education and community action, Tom Lovett adult education and the peace movement, Budd L. Hall adult education and the Women's Movement, Jane L. Thompson education and the environmental movement, Brian Martin workers' education and the crisis of British trade unionism, John Field adult education with unemployed people, Richard Taylor and Kevin Ward worker ownership: an opportunity to control the production of knowledge, Frank Adams adult education and the Third World: an African perspective, Retta Alemayehu.
Book
Abstract
Presents a broad historical and theoretical perspective on radical adult education. It also explores a range of contemporary issues and initiatives with examples of practice from a number of countries.
Part 1: Perspectives - historical and theoretical: "really useful knowledge" 1790-1850: memories for education in the 1980s, Richard Johnson the long search for the working class: socialism and the education of adults, 1850-1930, Paul F. Armstrong domesticity and its discontents: feminism and adult education in past time 1870-1920, Sallie Westwood et al their contributions to education for socialism, Paula Allman adult education in radical US social and ethnic movements: from case studies to typology to explanation, Rolland G. Paulston et al. Part 2 Contemporary initiatives community education and community action, Tom Lovett adult education and the peace movement, Budd L. Hall adult education and the Women's Movement, Jane L. Thompson education and the environmental movement, Brian Martin workers' education and the crisis of British trade unionism, John Field adult education with unemployed people, Richard Taylor and Kevin Ward worker ownership: an opportunity to control the production of knowledge, Frank Adams adult education and the Third World: an African perspective, Retta Alemayehu.
Social Movements
Anti-war, Environmental Rights, Ethnic movements, Feminist, Labor, Socialist movements, Women's Rights, Working Class
Keywords
Class, Europe, Gender, Nonformal Education, North America
Theme
Popular Education; Adult Education; and Social Movement Learning