1st Edition

Spaces of Political Pedagogy Occupy! and other radical experiments in adult learning

By Cassie Earl Copyright 2018
204 Pages
by Routledge

204 Pages
by Routledge

204 Pages
by Routledge

This book examines three sites of pedagogical innovation, all of which are explicitly activisms against the current political and pedagogical climate. Drawing on an interdisciplinary framework including autonomous Marxism, post-anarchism, social movement theories and theories of critical pedagogy, it examines social movements though a pedagogical lens and attempts to understand how connections... Read more

1. Sleeping on the floor and other spaces: the importance of space and place to learning  2. Social change and the political academic: creating a place for research in social movements  3. Political? Pedagogical? Philosophical?: putting the theory to work in conversation  4. Organic education from the ground up: stories from Occupy  5. Becoming organised: co-operatively organised education: stories from the Social Science Centre and higher education against neoliberalised consumerism: stories from Student as Producer  6. In the beginning Occupy created camps: thinking through the implications  7. Capturing future resistance in education



Biography

Cassie Earl is a lecturer in Education at the School of Education, at the University of Bristol, UK.