Educating for Action: A Curriculum for Social Activists: 34 (International Issues in Adult Education, 34) - Softcover

Roger Hopkins

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9004523855 ISBN 13: 9789004523852

Publisher: BRILL, 2022

Synopsis

We live at a time when the competitive, capitalist model of action has eclipsed all other contemporary social and economic models and threatens the greater cooperative good of society. Neoliberalism is an attempt to reimagine governance in an age of mass democratic policies by its intention to inoculate capitalism against the threat of democracy.

Education for Action: A Curriculum for Social Activists sees social action as a vital vehicle in challenging this intense individualistic, managerial and competitive ethos. Such action is a collective, transformative response to capitalism which combines local activism, community development and the advocacy of social, political and economic rights to help committed citizens initiate, stimulate and support social change at both local and global levels.

The book explains the methods, instruments, theories and practices that help educators encourage activists to build power amongst concerned individuals using a curriculum that emphasises the importance of critical theory and which is accessible to everybody and rooted in their community. The author also stresses the vital role of education in helping activists resist the ideologies, actions and slogans imposed on society by authoritarian powerholders while simultaneously regenerating grass-roots politics and its belief in the viability of collective solidarity and social activism.

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About the Author

Roger Hopkins has a degree and teaching diploma from the University of Wales and has taught in colleges of further education, technical and higher education. He has published widely on social action, community development and adult education.

Edition details

• Publisher: BRILL
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004523855
• ISBN 13: 9789004523852
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 244