How Do You Learn How to Change the World?: Learning and Teaching in Australian Protest Movements

Title
How Do You Learn How to Change the World?: Learning and Teaching in Australian Protest Movements
Publication Date
2003
Author(s)
Boughton, Robert George
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7724-7162
Email: rboughto@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:rboughto
Branagan, Martin
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6525-4966
Email: mbranag2@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:mbranag2
Type of document
Journal Article
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Adult Learning Australia
Place of publication
Australia
UNE publication id
une:3026
Abstract
This paper explores the learning that occurs in social protest movements, in particular' the 'ecopax' movement in Australia. The authors bring to bear on their own experiences some of the insights of the academic fields of adult education and peace studies, drawing in particular on the ideas of popular education. They catalogue some of the enormous variety of learning that they themselves have observed and experienced as activists, analysing it in terms of Newman's (1995) categories of instrumental, communicative and emancipatory learning. They argue for more attention to be paid to social movements as important sites of learning; and for greater recognition within education institutions of the knowledge and understandings which people gain for their involvement in protest politics. The paper concludes by linking learning and teaching in the contemporary 'ecopax' movement to the much longer traditions of radical adult education tied to movements for social change.
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Citation
Australian Journal of Adult Learning, 43(3), p. 346-360
ISSN
1443-1394
Start page
346
End page
360

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