Education for social change : perspectives on global learning / Douglas Bourn.

By:

Bourn, Douglas [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2022Description: xi, 319 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9781350192843

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

306.43 BOU

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Standard Loan	Moylish Library Main Collection	306.43 BOU (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		39002100604454

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

This book introduces students to education as a vehicle for social change. 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. The third sections covers how social change has been explored and promoted within different areas of learning, including schooling, youth work and higher education. 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. Key theorists are introduced throughout the book including bell hooks, Dewey, Giroux, Gramsci, and Freire. Each chapter begins with an opening question and ends with bulleted concluding points, questions for discussion and a further reading list. The book includes a foreword written by Tania Ramalho (State University of New York, USA).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

Foreword (p. vi)
Acknowledgements (p. ix)
List of Abbreviations (p. x)
Introduction (p. 1)
1 Changing Role and Relationship of Education to Societal Change (p. 13)
2 Education for a Democratic Society (p. 31)
3 Education for Liberation (p. 47)
4 Education for Socialism and a New Society (p. 59)
5 Education for a Global Society (p. 77)
6 Pedagogy for Global Social Justice (p. 95)
7 Education for Transformation, Sustainable Future and Being Global Citizens (p. 121)
8 Teachers as Agents of Social Change (p. 139)
9 Global Youth Work and Young People as Social Activists (p. 161)
10 The Role of the Academic Tutor (p. 187)
11 Civil Society Organizations as Agents for Change (p. 211)
12 International Organizations, UNESCO, Earth Charter and Putting the Sustainable Development Goals into Practice (p. 237)
Conclusion (p. 259)
Notes (p. 267)
References (p. 270)
Index (p. 305)

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Douglas Bourn is Professor of Development Education and Co-Director of the Development Education Research Centre at UCL Institute of Education, University College London, UK. He is author of The Theory and Practice of Development Education (2015), editor of The Bloomsbury Handbook of Global Education and Learning (Bloomsbury 2020), and was previously the editor of the International Journal of Development Education and Global Learning.