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Empowering Education
Roger Hopkins
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Description for Empowering Education
Paperback.
This is a book about giving people power. It is written in a style that makes community development, adult education and collective action accessible to community workers, adult education tutors and students as well as committed citizens. The author, with extensive experience of adult education and community action, examines how teaching via logical discourse, storytelling, critical thinking - and the linking of the ideas of social theorists such as Freire, Alinsky and Gramsci with community concerns about the changes driven by neoliberal policies - can generate political awareness and collective change. By providing examples of group development processes, listening skills, ... Read more
This is a book about giving people power. It is written in a style that makes community development, adult education and collective action accessible to community workers, adult education tutors and students as well as committed citizens. The author, with extensive experience of adult education and community action, examines how teaching via logical discourse, storytelling, critical thinking - and the linking of the ideas of social theorists such as Freire, Alinsky and Gramsci with community concerns about the changes driven by neoliberal policies - can generate political awareness and collective change. By providing examples of group development processes, listening skills, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
John Hunt Publishing
Number of pages
390
Condition
New
Number of Pages
390
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781846945175
SKU
V9781846945175
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-24
About Roger Hopkins
Roger Hopkins lives in Pontypridd in South Wales and has spent his working life in the voluntary and the higher education sectors helping communities combat social and economic deprivation.
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