The Educational Influences on Active Citizens: A Case Study of Members of the Scottish Socialist Party (SSP)

Autor/in	Kane, Liam
Titel	The Educational Influences on Active Citizens: A Case Study of Members of the Scottish Socialist Party (SSP)
Quelle	In: Studies in the Education of Adults, 39 (2007) 1, S.54-76 (23 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0266-0830
Schlagwörter	Learning Processes; Popular Education; Educational Experience; Citizenship; Adult Educators; Social Change; Adult Education; Case Studies; Political Attitudes; Foreign Countries; Questionnaires; Activism; United Kingdom (Scotland) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Learning process; Lernprozess; Befreiungspädagogik; Bildungserfahrung; Staatsbürgerschaft; Adult education teacher; Adult education; Adult training; Teacher; Teachers; Adult educator; Erwachsenenbildner; Erwachsenenbildung; Lehrer; Lehrerin; Lehrende; Sozialer Wandel; Adult; Adults; Education; Adult basic education; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Political attitude; Politische Einstellung; Ausland; Fragebogen; Aktivismus; Politischer Protest
Abstract	While there is a wealth of literature and research on radical adult "popular" education for social change, most of it looks forward and speculates on the educational processes best able to help the oppressed of the world overcome naive passivity and become critically aware "subjects" of social change. Within a critical education framework, this article looks in the opposite direction, starts with activists who are already critically aware and works backwards through their life histories to search for the educational experiences, formal and informal, considered to have been most influential in their development. Two hundred and seventy-eight members of the new Scottish Socialist Party responded to a questionnaire inquiring into a range of possible educational influences leading them to become socialist activists: this article analyses the findings of that study, draws comparisons with other research in the more generalised area of "active citizenship" and considers the implications this might have for adult educators working in the field of popular education. (Contains 1 table, 5 figures and 1 note.) (Author).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10