Feminist Popular Education in Transnational Debates: Building Pedagogies of Possibility

by L. Manicom (Editor), S. Walters (Editor)

Overview

This book is a collection of grounded accounts by feminist popular educators reflecting critically on processes of collective learning andself- and social transformation in various geopolitical settings.The contributorsadd to the debateon the forging of feminist praxis today.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780230339132
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date:	02/29/2012
Series:	Comparative Feminist Studies
Edition description:	2012
Pages:	271
Product dimensions:	5.70(w) x 8.60(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

SHIRLEY WALTERS Founding director of the Centre for Adult and Continuing Education.

LINZI MANICOMCoordinator of the Service Learning Program at New College, University of Toronto, Canada,and teaches in the New College Writing Centre.

Table of Contents

Feminist Popular Education: Pedagogies, Politics, and Possibilities; L.Manicom & S.Walters Digging up the Ground Beneath Our Feet: Exploring Psychoanalytic Contributions to Feminist Popular Education; B.Williams & A.Meckesheimer The Politics of Listening: The Power of Theatre to Create Dialogic Spaces; S.Butterwick Twenty Year Sentences: Women's Writing Workshops in U.S. Prisons and Jails; T.Jacobi Venus in Lesotho: Women, Theatre, and the Collapsible Boundaries of Silence; K.Lissard Shaping the Magic: Reflections on Some Core Principles of Feminist Popular Education; D.Platenga Heart-felt Pedagogy in the Time of HIV and AIDS; H.Ferris & S.Walters "Becoming the Change You Want to See in the World"; M.Friedman No More Silence: Forging a Feminist Path towards Collective Decolonization; C.L.D'Arcangelis & A.Huntley www.net: Quest(ion)ing Transformative Possibilities of the Web; J.Horsman Feminist Artists and Popular Education: The Creative Turn; D.Clover The Intersecting Roles of Religion, Culture and Spirituality in Feminist Popular Education in a Post 9/11 U.S. Context; E.J.Tisdell, F.Brown-Haywood , N.Charaniya & J.W.Walsh Holding onto Transformative Practices in a University: Musings of a Feminist Popular Educator; S.Ismail Feminist Health Education on the Net; L.Hunt & D.Kaercher

Editorial Reviews

"Like its predecessor, Gender in Popular Education, this book makes visible 'the innovative, challenging creative work undertaken by feminist popular educators, sometimes under the most trying conditions'. Sixteen years on, we have a collection of chapters that are exemplary stories of praxis, weaving together feminist and pedagogic theory and practice for action, illustrating how feminist popular education is 'a means to both exercise and contest power' . . . The 21 authors all deal with the tensions and contradictions, revelations and crucial insights that arise in/out of doing this work and they describe and critically analyse their craft, giving us valuable insight into the workings of feminist popular education." - International Journal of Lifelong Education

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