Workers' education in the global south : radical adult education at the crossroads

Workers' education in the global south : radical adult education at the crossroads /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cooper, Linda, 1953- (Author)
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill Sense, [2020]
Series:Knowledge economy and education ; v. 11.
Subjects:
Working class > Education > South Africa > Case studies.
Adult education > South Africa > Case studies.
Working class > Education > South Africa > History > 20th century.
Labor movement > South Africa > History > 20th century.
Radicalization > South Africa > History > 20th century.
Apartheid > Economic aspects > South Africa.
Education > Political aspects > South Africa.
Educational sociology > South Africa.
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Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction: A Workers' Education Event in 1980s South Africa
  • 1. Reclaiming the Radical Tradition
  • 2. Defining Workers' Education
  • 3. Brief History of Workers' Education in South Africa
  • 4. Framing the Book Theoretically and Methodologically
  • 5. Concluding Comments
  • 2. `The Sun Shall Rise for the Workers': The Contested Political Purposes of Workers' Education
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Conceptualising the Purpose of Workers' Education
  • 3. Key Lines of Ideological Contestation in Workers' Education
  • 4. Workers' Education at the Beginning of the 21st Century: Radical Resistance, Pragmatic Accommodation
  • 5. Gathering Contradictions: A Possible `Breakthrough into Learning Activity'?
  • 6. Conclusion
  • 3. `Healing the Breach' between Intellectual and Manual Labour: The Epistemology of Workers' Education
  • 1. Intellectual and Manual Labour and Hierarchies of Knowledge
  • 2. Radical Approaches to Knowledge
  • 3. Knowledge in South African Workers' Education
  • 4. Views on Knowledge in samwu
  • 5. Views on Knowledge in the Workers' College
  • 6. Emerging Tensions and Contradictions
  • 7. Conclusion
  • 4. What Is `Really Useful Knowledge' in Workers' Education?
  • 1. South African `Knowledge Wars'
  • 2. Knowledge Use in samwu
  • 3. Gramsci on Organic Intellectuals and Knowledge Production
  • 4. Knowledge Differentiation in Workers' Education
  • 5. Organic Intellectuals: `Braiding' New Knowledge
  • 6. Tensions and Contradictions in the Knowledge Practices of Workers' Education
  • 7. Conclusion
  • 5. Pedagogy of Workers' Education: Conscientisation or Indoctrination?
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. `Visible' and `Invisible' Pedagogy
  • 3. Non-Formal Workers' Education Programmes under Apartheid
  • 4. samwu's Pedagogy: A `Mixed Pedagogic Pallet'
  • 5. Conclusion: Holding the Tension - A Complex `Balancing Act'
  • 6. Informal Learning: Workers' Education as Praxis
  • 1. Learning through Organisational Praxis
  • 2. Workers' Education and Cultural Praxis
  • 3. Workers' Education and Mass Action
  • 4. Conclusion
  • 7. Workers' Education and the Formal System
  • 1. Apartheid Labour Market and Skills Development
  • 2. Transition to Democracy - But Also to Neo-Liberalism
  • 3. Unions and Post-Apartheid Education and Training Policies
  • 4. What Went Wrong?
  • 5. Navigating the Accreditation Terrain
  • 6. Conclusion
  • 8. Reinventing Workers' Education
  • 1. Distinctive Features of Workers' Education as an Activity System
  • 2. Contribution of Radical Workers' Education to Our Knowledge Archive
  • 3. Radical Workers' Education at the Crossroads?
  • 4. Finding a Way Forward: Re-Inventing Workers' Education
  • 5. Rethinking `Workers' Education' - Rethinking `Work'.

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