TOM PIERSCIONEK recommends a remarkable series of interviews with those few and brave Israeli citizens who refuse to do military service
The politics of education
MARJORIE MAYO lays out the foundations necessary to allow for learning that equips people to engage in collective struggle and progressive social change
Paulo Freire Panel: CEFORTEPE - Center for Training, Technology and Educational Research Prof. Milton de Almeida Santos, in Campinas a city in southeast Brazil, northwest of Sao Paulo
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The bard rests on his laurels, and swipes left and right
MARIA DUARTE cherishes the flashes of absurd humour and theme of community healing in a documentary set in a Soviet-era Black Sea sanatorium
ANGUS REID and MARIA DUARTE review The Courageous, The Cut, Christy, and On Swift Horses
TOM STONE sings the praises of one of the oldest open-air festivals in Britain
Chris Searle speaks to accordionist KAREN STREET
THE recent publication of “Lessons in organising: What trade unionists can learn from the war on teachers” raises very many questions about the politics of education.
How does a Marxist analysis help us to understand the underlying issues: education for “domestication” or education for social transformation? Learning that prepares people to take their allotted places within the existing social order or learning that equips people to engage in collective struggles for progressive social change? And how can transformative approaches to learning be developed most effectively?
These questions are just as relevant to debates about trade union and community education, in the current context.
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