The War against People: Adult Education Practice for Critical Democracy

Autor/inn/en	Connolly, Brid; Hussey, Peter
Titel	The War against People: Adult Education Practice for Critical Democracy
Quelle	In: Adult Learner: The Irish Journal of Adult and Community Education, (2013), S.75-87 (13 Seiten) PDF als Volltext (1); PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (2) Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0790-8040
Schlagwörter	Adult Education; Educational Practices; Community Education; Social Control; Social Justice; Dialogs (Language); Social Problems; Psychotherapy; Democratic Values; Foreign Countries; Social Change; Democracy; Theories; Behavior; Ethnography; Ireland + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Adult; Adults; Education; Adult basic education; Adult training; Erwachsenenbildung; Bildungspraxis; ; Gemeinschaftserziehung; Nachbarschaftserziehung; Soziale Kontrolle; Soziale Gerechtigkeit; Dialog; Dialogs; Dialogue; Dialogues; Social problem; Soziales Problem; Psychotherapie; Ausland; Sozialer Wandel; Demokratie; Theory; Theorie; Ethnografie; Irland
Abstract	The purpose of this article is to explore the role of adult education for critical democracy, in order to address the social suffering that these authors have encountered in their work as critical adult community educators. Brid Connolly and Peter Hussey explored this through dialogue, as a process of education and research. Dialogue is the moment where humans meet to reflect on their reality as they make and remake it (Ira Shor and Paulo Freire, "A Pedagogy for Liberation: Dialogues on Transforming Education," 1987). The authors state that the purpose of dialogue is to transform social relations, in the learning environment and in the community of practice, a key way of creating new knowledge. Also, they contend that dialogue is a process of joint autoethnographic research that examines experience, in order to understand cultural practices, (Ellis, et al, 2011). Further, congruent with their pedagogies, autoethnography treats research as a political, socially-just and socially-conscious act (Adams and Holman Jones, 2008). This article developed out of dialogue that they have had for years, but which they formalised only recently. The authors consider dialogue as a pivot, based on Freire's contention that education is a conversation rather than a curriculum (1972). Further, their dialogue is underpinned by reflexivity, particularly using themselves in research and practice (Etherington, 2004). (ERIC).
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Update	2017/4/10