Geoff Fagan

Liberation and Discourse in Community Learning and Development

An application of liberational and discourse theory to community capacity building through non-formal learning in rural Scotland

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Education, formal or non-formal, is either a
mechanism for change or conservation: it is
transformational or transmissive. This book
interrogates the philosophies that underpin the
notion of a dominant discourse and its relationshp
to social change. These are then applied to the
concept of community asset development
through the CADISPA Project in rural Scotland. The
book identifies the tension that exists between two
fundamentally different positions on the notion of
citizen engagement and personal and social change,
that of Paulo Freire and Michael Foucault, and
compares and contrasts the implications of each in a
real-time community development project.
Understanding the impact of this differental is
important to those professionals and community
activists who would wish to secure their
interventions in local communities on the basis of
reflective and theory driven practice.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: VDM Verlag Dr. Müller
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 362g
• ISBN-13: 9783639115574
• ISBN-10: 3639115570
• Artikelnr.: 26831311

Autorenporträt

Dr Geoff Fagan is a senior lecturer at the University of
Strathclyde in Glasgow UK. He is Director of the Scottish Centre
for Sustainable Community Development and the manager of the
CADISPA Project. His teaching and research portfolio includes
empowerment processes, non-formal education, sustainability and
citizen engagement in social change.