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Popular education and social movements in India: State responses to constructive resistance for social justice

Popular education and social movements in India: State responses to constructive resistance for social justice

Dip Kapoor
2004
2004

Abstract

Kapoor reports on a study that was undertaken to assess the "brakes of domination" on attempts at constructive resistance. The study has been undertaken as "one research moment" within the context of a longitudinal participatory action research initiative that commenced in 1995. She also focuses on the concerns to some of the social structural and/or institutional "barriers" to popular education and social movement building in India, and the implications for a popular praxis that seeks to address the barriers.

Abstract

Kapoor reports on a study that was undertaken to assess the "brakes of domination" on attempts at constructive resistance. The study has been undertaken as "one research moment" within the context of a longitudinal participatory action research initiative that commenced in 1995. She also focuses on the concerns to some of the social structural and/or institutional "barriers" to popular education and social movement building in India, and the implications for a popular praxis that seeks to address the barriers.

Social Movements

Popular movements

Keywords

Asia, Nonformal Education, Policy, Popular Education, Praxis

Theme

Popular Education; Adult Education; and Social Movement Learning