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Forging Solidarity : Popular Education at Work / Astrid von Kotze, Shirley Walters.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextSeries: International Issues in Adult Education ; v. 22 | Educational Research E-Books Online, Collection 2005-2017, ISBN: 9789004394001 | International Issues in Adult Education ; 22. | Educational Research E-Books Online, Collection 2005-2017, ISBN: 9789004394001Publisher: Leiden, Boston : Brill | Sense, 2017Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9789463009232
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Forging Solidarity: Popular Education at WorkDDC classification:
  • 370.115 23
LOC classification:
  • LC196
Online resources:
Contents:
Preliminary Material / Astrid von Kotze and Shirley Walters -- Introduction / Astrid von Kotze and Shirley Walters -- Past And Present Intersections / Linda Cooper and Thembi Luckett -- Moves to Decolonise Solidarity through Feminist Popular Education / Shirley Walters and Shauna Butterwick -- Popular Education Pedagogy and South–South Solidarity / Bob Boughton and Deborah Durnan -- Women’s Boat To Gaza / Leigh-Ann Naidoo -- Building Peace, Solidarity And Hope In Africa Through Popular Education / Vaughn M. John -- People In Extreme Poverty Act For Change / Diana Skelton and Martin Kalisa -- Building Economic Solidarity from Grassroots Survival Mechanisms in Freedom Park, Johannesburg / Mudney Halim -- From Information To Knowledge For Action In Blikkiesdorp / Vainola Makan -- Being The Earth’s Comrade / Jane Burt and Thabo Lusithi -- Solidarity Is Not A One-Way Street / Sudhanva Deshpande -- Street Theatre For Solidarity / Astrid von Kotze -- Amazwi Wethu / Eugene Paramoer and Lyndal Pottier -- Working With Life Stories / Carohn Cornell -- Contours of Radical Pedagogy / Salma Ismail -- Study Circles / Saliem Patel -- Pedagogy Of Struggle / Sheri Hamilton -- Building S Movement For The Right To Education In Chile / Sebastián Vielmas -- Solidarity in and Against the Academy / Jim Crowther and Mae Shaw -- About the Contributors / Astrid von Kotze and Shirley Walters -- Index / Astrid von Kotze and Shirley Walters.
Summary: Animating this book is a twofold question: In what ways are adult and popular educators responding to various harsh economic, political, cultural and environmental conditions? In doing so, are they planting seeds of hope for and imaginings of alternative futures which can connect individuals and communities locally and globally to achieve economic, ecological and social justice? The book illustrates how transformative politics of solidarity often involve actors across vastly different backgrounds. Solidarity is therefore a political relationship that is forged through particular struggles situated in place and time across power differentials. The authors put popular education to work by describing and analysing their strategies and approaches. They do so using accessible language and engaging styles. Popular education is a medium for dreaming, for imagining other futures. It is also essential for countering the wilful spreading of fake news and propagation of ignorance. Pedagogies of solidarity are necessary to building connections amongst people at a time when competitive individualism and alienation are rampant. Forging solidarity with and amongst communities is a means towards that end, and, indeed, an end in itself.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material / Astrid von Kotze and Shirley Walters -- Introduction / Astrid von Kotze and Shirley Walters -- Past And Present Intersections / Linda Cooper and Thembi Luckett -- Moves to Decolonise Solidarity through Feminist Popular Education / Shirley Walters and Shauna Butterwick -- Popular Education Pedagogy and South–South Solidarity / Bob Boughton and Deborah Durnan -- Women’s Boat To Gaza / Leigh-Ann Naidoo -- Building Peace, Solidarity And Hope In Africa Through Popular Education / Vaughn M. John -- People In Extreme Poverty Act For Change / Diana Skelton and Martin Kalisa -- Building Economic Solidarity from Grassroots Survival Mechanisms in Freedom Park, Johannesburg / Mudney Halim -- From Information To Knowledge For Action In Blikkiesdorp / Vainola Makan -- Being The Earth’s Comrade / Jane Burt and Thabo Lusithi -- Solidarity Is Not A One-Way Street / Sudhanva Deshpande -- Street Theatre For Solidarity / Astrid von Kotze -- Amazwi Wethu / Eugene Paramoer and Lyndal Pottier -- Working With Life Stories / Carohn Cornell -- Contours of Radical Pedagogy / Salma Ismail -- Study Circles / Saliem Patel -- Pedagogy Of Struggle / Sheri Hamilton -- Building S Movement For The Right To Education In Chile / Sebastián Vielmas -- Solidarity in and Against the Academy / Jim Crowther and Mae Shaw -- About the Contributors / Astrid von Kotze and Shirley Walters -- Index / Astrid von Kotze and Shirley Walters.

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Animating this book is a twofold question: In what ways are adult and popular educators responding to various harsh economic, political, cultural and environmental conditions? In doing so, are they planting seeds of hope for and imaginings of alternative futures which can connect individuals and communities locally and globally to achieve economic, ecological and social justice? The book illustrates how transformative politics of solidarity often involve actors across vastly different backgrounds. Solidarity is therefore a political relationship that is forged through particular struggles situated in place and time across power differentials. The authors put popular education to work by describing and analysing their strategies and approaches. They do so using accessible language and engaging styles. Popular education is a medium for dreaming, for imagining other futures. It is also essential for countering the wilful spreading of fake news and propagation of ignorance. Pedagogies of solidarity are necessary to building connections amongst people at a time when competitive individualism and alienation are rampant. Forging solidarity with and amongst communities is a means towards that end, and, indeed, an end in itself.

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