The Activist Craft: Learning Processes and Outcomes of Professional Activism

Autor/inn/en	Costa, Ana L.; Vaz, Henrique; Menezes, Isabel
Titel	The Activist Craft: Learning Processes and Outcomes of Professional Activism
Quelle	In: Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 71 (2021) 3, S.211-231 (21 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Menezes, Isabel)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0741-7136
DOI	10.1177/0741713620988255
Schlagwörter	Adult Education; Activism; Learning Processes; Teaching Methods; Foreign Countries; Social Justice; Work Environment; Political Socialization; Work Experience; Empathy; Professional Personnel; Workplace Learning; Portugal + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Adult; Adults; Education; Adult basic education; Adult training; Erwachsenenbildung; Aktivismus; Politischer Protest; Learning process; Lernprozess; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Ausland; Soziale Gerechtigkeit; Arbeitsmilieu; Politische Sozialisation; Employment experience; Job experience; Occupational experience; Berufserfahrung; Empathie; Personalbestand
Abstract	Work as a place of activism is a vast field to be explored in adult education research, particularly within educational, social, and community intervention with people in situations of vulnerability. This qualitative study aims to unveil the richness of activists' learning processes and outcomes by reflecting on the pedagogy of professional activism, with professionals working in Portugal. Their sharing reveals a thematic influence and interdependence between the dimensions "How?" and "What?" of professional activism learning and the themes composing them--respectively, "political socialization" and "work experience"; and "critical, social and political consciousness," "sense of (in)justice and empathy," and "know-how to speak out." As professionals learn how to become activists, they also construct this praxis, and themselves as professionals, giving meaning and (re)defining their activist craft, through a learning-creative process. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01