Community and the World: Participating in Social Change - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 159033633X ISBN 13: 9781590336335

Publisher: Nova Biomedical, 2003

Synopsis

This collection of articles and artwork examines inclusive community development education, which engages members of diverse, often marginalised groups in research and education for social change. Community development education is the democratic and scholarly practice of involving everyday people, from all backgrounds, in the research-based process of designing, starting, and evaluating programs that meet people''s needs. The book''s varied contributions serve as personalised invitations to: work with others as equals, join democratic social projects, talk to people "you wouldn''t have talked to before", value self-education, recognise contributions made by unpaid workers, invent ways to be non-violent, challenge passivity, and use democracy as a way to improve communities and the world. Addressing culture to science, chapters contain work carried out by younger and older scholarly activists in: Women''s Studies, anti-racist and anti-colonial studies, history, the social sciences, global studies, community studies, media studies, horticulture, philosophy, education, co-operatives and community service, social-movement organising, project development, political art, and popular music. Each chapter contains diverse themes, comes from multidisciplinary research, and speaks to the subject of education for social change in individual ways. Contributions focus on popular education, self-education, self-defined group education, group-defined university projects, and scholarly activism in local to global movements.

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Artists, social and natural scientists, and political and social activists, all of whom engage in educational activities of some sort, suggest how democratic, community-based, and global scholars can carry out egalitarian community development education. They describe the women-inclusive, research-b

Edition details

• Publisher: Nova Biomedical
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 159033633X
• ISBN 13: 9781590336335
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 296
• Editor: Dickinson Torry D