Preliminary Material -- The story of ALP -- Ideas and contexts -- Investigations and learning programmes: case studies -- Action outcomes and workshops: case studies -- The influence of ALP -- Reflections -- ALP since 1990: a flowering of cultural action -- Glossary -- Select bibliography -- Digest of statistics -- Index -- Supplementary index -- Biographical notes by the authors.

The Adult Learning Project in Edinburgh, affectionately known as ALP, is a sustained experiment in applying the principles of the Brazilian educator, Paulo Freire, in a European post-industrial urban environment. Because this book explains so sensitively the theory and rationale of Freirean education, and describes so carefully the Freirean process at work in a Scottish setting, it will hearten and inspire all those who fear the iron hold of mechanistic and passive approaches to learning.

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