Education for Social Change: Perspectives on Global Learning Bourn Douglas
Education for Social Change: Perspectives on Global Learning Bourn Douglas This book introduces students to education as a vehicle for social change. The third sections covers how social change has…
Specifikacia Education for Social Change: Perspectives on Global Learning Bourn Douglas
Education for Social Change: Perspectives on Global Learning Bourn Douglas
This book introduces students to education as a vehicle for social change. The third sections covers how social change has been explored and promoted within different areas of learning, including schooling, youth work and higher education. Douglas Bourn begins by providing historical context of how education has been linked to social change around the world and moves on, in the second section of the book, to discuss potential theoretical and conceptual frameworks for thinking about education for social change.
Key theorists are introduced throughout the book including Althusser, Bourdieu and Bernstein, Dewey, Gramsci, and Freire. The fourth section looks at the opportunities and challenges for promoting education for social change and reviews current international initiatives including those of global citizenship and climate change. Each chapter begins with an opening question and