Spaces of Political Pedagogy: Occupy! and other radical experiments in adult learning - Hardcover

Earl, Cassie

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1138633216 ISBN 13: 9781138633216

Publisher: Routledge, 2018

Synopsis

This book examines three sites of pedagogical innovation, all of which are explicitly activisms against the current political and pedagogical climate. Drawing on an interdisciplinary framework including autonomous Marxism, post-anarchism, social movement theories and theories of critical pedagogy, it examines social movements though a pedagogical lens and attempts to understand how connections can be made between social movement learning and other initiatives and forms of higher learning. With studies of the London Occupy! movement; The Social Science Centre, a co-operative higher learning provider that practises popular education in city venues; and a university politically opposing the ‘student as consumer’ ethos, Spaces of Political Pedagogy connects these various projects as a continuum of educational experimentation, offering insights into the ways in which these sites practice pedagogy and the manner in which these practices could be implemented more widely to inform and improve struggles for wider social justice. As such, it will appeal to scholars of education and sociology with interests in pedagogy, social movements and activism.

About this title

About the Author:

Cassie Earl is a lecturer in Education at the School of Education, at the University of Bristol, UK.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1138633216
• ISBN 13: 9781138633216
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 204