Seeking Authenticity: Women and Learning in the Catholic Worker Movement

Autor/inn/en	Parrish, Marilyn McKinley; Taylor, Edward W.
Titel	Seeking Authenticity: Women and Learning in the Catholic Worker Movement
Quelle	In: Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 57 (2007) 3, S.221-247 (27 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0741-7136
DOI	10.1177/0741713606296754
Schlagwörter	Females; Young Adults; Oral History; Catholics; Adult Education; Educational Environment; Spiritual Development; Learning Processes; Group Membership; Social Action; Gender Bias; Evaluation Methods + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Weibliches Geschlecht; Young adult; Junger Erwachsener; Oral tradition; Mündliche Überlieferung; Katholik; Adult; Adults; Education; Adult basic education; Adult training; Erwachsenenbildung; Lernumgebung; Pädagogische Umwelt; Schulumwelt; Learning process; Lernprozess; Gruppenzugehörigkeit; Soziales Handeln; Geschlechterstereotyp
Abstract	Oral history interviews form the basis of an investigation into both the context and the everyday actions that contributed to the learning environment for women within the Catholic Worker Movement during the 1930s and 1940s. Findings reveal that narrators (a) were grounded in a variety of learning environments including family, Catholic Church, and school contexts; (b) sought adventure and authenticity as young adults; (c) practiced compassionate and critical-systemic faith within the Catholic Worker, which resulted in a new framework or way of seeing; (d) developed significant relationships that fostered learning in new ways; and (d) despite oppressive narrowing of opportunity for some because of their gender, learned to trust personal conscience as it guided them into positions of leadership that were unusual at the time within their local parishes. This study contributes to the expanding boundaries of the history of adult education by addressing issues of gender, spirituality, and learning in social movements. (Author).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10