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Learning in social action:
a contribution to understanding informal education
| Griff Foley ISBN 1 86201 067 6 1999 More titles on Social Change |
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This book seeks to increase our understanding of the informal circumstances in which people learn. Griff Foley argues that adult educators should not neglect the importance of the incidental learning which can take place when people become involved in voluntary organisations, social struggles and political activity. He gives case studies from Australia, Brazil, the United States and Zimbabwe, embracing very diverse political, environmental, women's and worker's struggles.
The author shows how involvement in social action can help people to unlearn dominant, oppressive discourses and learn oppositional and liberatory ones. at the heart of the book is the notion that adult learning and adult education are complex and contested social activities. This is in contrast to a body of adult education theory which focuses on individual learners, on educational technique and on course provision. In this book Griff Foley points the way to a more radical agenda.
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Reviews
‘A very illuminating contribution to current conceptualisations of adult
education. Readers of this book will never again take informal learning
lightly.’
(Nelly P Stromquist, University of Southern California)
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Contents
| Acknowledgements | |
| Chapter 1. | Introduction |
| Chapter 2. | Ideology, discourse and learning |
| Chapter 3. | Learning in a green campaign |
| Chapter 4. | The Neighbourhood house: site of struggle, site of learning |
| Chapter 5. | Adult education and Capitalist Reorganisation |
| Chapter 6. | Learning in Brazilian Women's' Organisations |
| Chapter 7. | Political education in the Zimbabwe liberation struggle |
| Chapter 8. | Conclusion |
| Bibliography | |
| Index |
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