Lifelong Learning and the Democratic Imagination Revisioning justice, freedom and Community |
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Editor:
| Willis, Peter Carden, Pam |
Introduction by:
| Willis, Peter Carden, Pam |
Author:
| Willis, Peter Carden, Pam Bishop, Peter Welton, Michael Plumb, Donovan Davison, Aidan Mulligan, Martin Leonard, Timothy Newman, Michael Neutze, Diana Dawson, Jane West, William Madsen, Catherine Hattam, Robert Martin, Iain C. Shaw, Mae Kotze, Astrid von Hammet, Kirsty McEwen, Celina Hawkes, Jon Bradshaw, Delia Nelson, Alex Coker, Jan Fisher, Kath Carson, Lyn Fox, Christine Reid, Alan Thomson, Pat Jackon, Janett Kajic Stehlik, Tom Bradshaw, Bill |
Preface by:
| MacKinnon, Alison |
ISBN: | 978-1-876682-63-7 |
Publication Date: | Jul 2004 |
Publisher: | Post Pressed
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | Contact Supplier contact
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Book Description:
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LIFELONG LEARNING AND THE DEMOCRATIC IMAGINATION is a collection of essays from Adult and Community Educators in Australia, New Zealand, England, Scotland, Canada, America and South Africa. There is a general belief here that democracy is about people consciously sharing power and that such deliberate choices to share power, draw on ideals and values of sharing with and including others. In modern life this generous and equitable stance has to be learned and re-learned against...
More DescriptionLIFELONG LEARNING AND THE DEMOCRATIC IMAGINATION is a collection of essays from Adult and Community Educators in Australia, New Zealand, England, Scotland, Canada, America and South Africa. There is a general belief here that democracy is about people consciously sharing power and that such deliberate choices to share power, draw on ideals and values of sharing with and including others. In modern life this generous and equitable stance has to be learned and re-learned against competing cultures of individualism and competition. Such learning needs more than logical argument. It occurs when powerful evocations of human equality and dignity capture the human imagination and move the heart. The work of this book is to pursue what needs to be done to generate suitable pre-dispositions for this unselfish sociable spirit to take root and grow. The book has five sections. The first concerns visions of democratic imagining: the second looks at predispositions for democratic imagining. The last three explore the educational work of imagining democracy in three learning arenas: community and work locations, higher and work-related education and schools.