Making Hope and History Rhyme: Reflections on Popular Education and Leadership Following a Visit to Highlander

Autor/inn/en	Connolly, Bríd; Finnegan, Fergal
Titel	Making Hope and History Rhyme: Reflections on Popular Education and Leadership Following a Visit to Highlander
Quelle	In: Adult Learning, 27 (2016) 3, S.120-127 (8 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1045-1595
DOI	10.1177/1045159516651611
Schlagwörter	Adult Education; Adult Educators; Social Differences; Foreign Countries; Folk Schools; Learning Processes; Leadership; Collectivism; Feminism; Critical Theory; Freedom; Equal Education; Popular Education; Critical Thinking; Educational Practices; Ireland; Tennessee + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Adult; Adults; Education; Adult basic education; Adult training; Erwachsenenbildung; Adult education teacher; Adult education; Teacher; Teachers; Adult educator; Erwachsenenbildner; Lehrer; Lehrerin; Lehrende; Sozialer Unterschied; Ausland; Learning process; Lernprozess; Führung; Führungsposition; Feminismus; Kritische Theorie; Freiheit; Befreiungspädagogik; Kritisches Denken; Bildungspraxis; Irland
Abstract	This article draws on our backgrounds as adult educators in Ireland and our experience at Highlander in 2014. We review our development as critical educators, exposed to deep inequalities in Irish society. We explore role of popular education in fostering social change, beginning with the commitment to equality and freedom, whereby, we produce emancipatory knowledge "with" students and participants. This learning process is more explicitly political and collective than individual psychological concepts of learning. The Highlander experience provided the opportunity to interrogate related assumptions that underpin the concept of leadership, pointing toward a more collective and political framework. The article uses feminist critical theories as lenses for this interrogation, holding that equality and freedom are "mutually constitutive" principles of critical practice. Popular educators foster critical thinking and reflection. The "Other's Tools", drawing on the precept that traditional thinking reinforces the status quo. These critical thinking tools are vital to question the assumptions that power and control in society as individualized or de-politicized. We take this learning into our practice in Ireland. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01