Popular Education and Social Change in Latin America
by Liam Kane
ISBN-10: 1 899365 52 4
Paperback, 14th December 2000
Price: £12.99
Social movements, collective action, imaginative campaining, grassroots politics, empowerment of the excluded, indigenous knowledge, appropriate development, participation, literacy - what do all these activities have in common? Popular education.
In Latin America, it is hard to understand recent social and political history without knowing about the social movements which have consistently provided the progressive and radical impetus for change.
Liam Kane takes us through a fascinating journey through the history and current challenges of popular education. Popular Education and Social Change in Latin America includes a biography of Paulo Freire, an in-depth look at one of the most successful social movements to use popular education, the Movements of Landless Rural Workers (MST) in Brazil, as well as wide-ranging theoretical and practical analyses. Kane highlights the importance of popular education to the 'new' social movements based around identity, such as women's and indigenous organisations.
Popular Education and Social Change in Latin America includes a 'Right to Reply' to each chapter from eight Latin America specialists, and also looks at the applications of the wealth of experience accumulated in Latin America to the UK and worldwide.
Chapter Breakdown
- Introduction
- Popular Education in Latin America
- The work of Paulo Freire
- The methodology of Popular Education
- Popular Education and the Landless People's Movement in Brazil (the MST)
- Popular Education and the politics of identity: Women's and Indigenous Peoples' Movements
- Popular Education and Ideology
- Assessing the impact of Popular Education at Micro Level
- Assessing the impact of Popular Education at Macro Level
- 'Rethinking the basics' of Popular Education
- Postscript
Review
"What we have here is a serious intellectual exercise which offers us, through its analysis and synthesis, a panoramic view of the nature of popular education in Latin America" Carlos Zarco, General Secretary of the Latin American Council of Adult Education (CEAAL).
About the Author
Liam Kane is a lecturer in Modern Languages and Adult Education at Glasgow University and is the leading specialist in popular education and Latin America in the UK.
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