A Critical Pedagogy of Embodied Education: Learning to Become an Activist (Palgrave Macmillan's Postcolonial Studies in Education)

Explores the differences and similarities between two groups: lifelong activists who have been engaged in campaigns and socials movements over many years and circumstantial activists, those protestors who come to activism due to a series of life circumstances. Outlines the pedagogy of activism and the process of learning to become an activist. Unlike any current publication on social purpose education, this book explores the differences and similarities between two groups of activists: lifelong activists who have been engaged in campaigns and socials movements over many years and circumstantial activists, those protestors who come to activism due to a series of life circumstances. Using empirical research conducted in Australia, Tracey Ollis outlines the pedagogy of activism and the process of learning to become an activist "Unlike any current publication on social purpose education, this book explores the differences and similarities between two groups of activists: lifelong activists who have been engaged in campaigns and socials movements over many years and circumstantial activists, those protestors who come to activism due to a series of life circumstances. Using empirical research conducted in Australia, Tracey Ollis outlines the pedagogy of activism and the process of learning to become an activist"--Provided by publisher Front Matter....Pages i-xix A Critical Pedagogy of Activism....Pages 1-19 Case Study Research....Pages 21-36 The Politics of Adult Education....Pages 37-55 The Lifelong Activists....Pages 57-108 The Circumstantial Activists....Pages 109-161 Embodied Learning....Pages 163-186 Informal and Social Learning....Pages 187-208 A Critical Pedagogy of Embodied Education....Pages 209-225 Back Matter....Pages 227-242