MATTHEW HAWKINS applauds a psychotherapist’s disection of William Blake
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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JOHN GREEN is fascinated by a very readable account of Britain’s involvement in South America
Strip cartoons used to be the bread and butter of newspapers and they have been around for centuries. MICHAL BONCZA asks our own Paul Tanner about which bees are in his bonnet
GORDON PARSONS acknowledges the authority with which Sarah Kane’s theatrical justification for suicide has resonance today
RON JACOBS welcomes a timely homage to one of the IWW and CPUSA’s most effective orators
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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