Buch, Englisch, Band 10, 204 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 278 g
Buch, Englisch, Band 10, 204 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 278 g
Reihe: International Issues in Adult Education
ISBN: 978-94-6091-977-0
Verlag: Brill Academic Publishers
From the streets of Barcelona and Athens, the public squares in Cairo, Tunis and Tripoli, the flash mobs and virtual learning of the #Occupy movement, and the shack dwellers of South Africa people around the world are organising themselves to take action against the ravages of a capitalism that serves the greedy while impoverishing the rest. Social movements have arisen or re-arisen in virtually every sector of human activity from concerns about the fate of our planet earth, to dignity for those living with HIV/AIDS, to feeding ourselves in healthier ways and survival in places of violent conflict. At the heart of each of these movements are activists and ordinary people learning how to change their lives and how to change the world.
The book offers contemporary theoretical and practical insights into the learning that happens both within and outside of social movements. Social movement scholars present work linked to the arts, to organic farming, to environmental action, to grassroots activists in the Global South, to the Arab Spring, the Occupy movement, the shackdwellers movements, school reform and the role of Marx, Gramscii and Williams in understanding social movement learning.