Promoting popular education and community learning, this book fills in the gap for an accessible resource that responds to 'fake news' and Far Right populism.
The rise of Far-Right populism poses major challenges for communities, exacerbating divisions, hate speech and hate crime. Mayo shows how communities and social justice movements can effectively tackle these issues, working together to mitigate their underlying causes and more immediate manifestations.
Proving that community-based learning is integral to the development of strategies to promote more hopeful rather than more hateful futures, Mayo demonstrates how, through popular education and participatory action research, communities can develop their own understandings of, and solutions to, their problems.
Table of Contents:
1. Introduction
2. Popular Education in a Populist Age
3. Popular Education and its Roots
4. Spaces and Places for Popular Education and Participatory Action Research
5. Principles and Practice
6. Sharing Understandings of Varying Histories and Cultures
7. Making Connections: Linking Issues and Struggles Across Space and Time
8. Power and Power Analysis
9. Community–University Partnerships
10. Taking Emotions into Account
11. Looking Backwards, Looking Forwards.
About the Author :
Marjorie Mayo is Emeritus Professor in Community Development at Goldsmiths, University of London.
Review :
"Marjorie Mayo is a legend in the field of community and popular education and in this book she draws on her wealth of experience to illustrate how urgent and necessary such work is in today’s populist age." Jim Crowther, University of Edinburgh
