Democracy, Education and Research: The Struggle for Public Life

ISBN-13: 9780415605120 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 220 str.

Keri Facer; Michael Fielding; Ivor F. Goodson

Opis

There are many books focusing upon recipe-like strategies for undertaking research, and there are many books on the politics of change and sustainable change in communities. However in this ground-breaking book four leading experts in the field of research combine their talents to offer a very different focus: how practices and processes of research and education can create fundamental, radical social change. Here the authors assess the meaning of 'public impact' by rethinking what is meant by a 'public' and how it is essential to the methodologies of education and research. They focus on and provide empirical illustrations of the use of research and educational processes in contemporary and emergent forms of social organisation, covering both the traditional forms to be found in the education system, health, community, business and the public institutions of government; as well as the emergent forms arising from innovations in information technologies. The book focuses on:

• researching the forms of learning and knowledge creation that take place across the whole range of everyday interactions that people engage in whether in places of learning, communities or workplaces
• the ways in which such learning and knowledge can be intentionally shaped by individuals and groups to effect social and political change
• The research strategies required to forge new practices, new ways of working and living for a more socially just world.

Avoiding jargon and introducing ideas and practices that can make a real difference this book will be relevant to students in education, sociology, politics, cultural studies and more generally on all courses where there are research-oriented modules focusing upon how to bring about change through social learning. It will also be of vital interest to a wide range of professional researchers from academics in their roles as teachers and professional researchers, to educators and activists working in our communities.

Spis treści

Introduction; Chapter One: What’s wrong with democracy at the moment and why it matters for research and education; Part One: What Went Wrong?; Chapter Two: The Challenge for Researchers and Educators; Chapter Three: What is wrong with contemporary practices of social/collective learning?; Chapter Four: The Organisation and Dis-organisation of Power; Chapter Five: Engaging with power through radical research methodologies; Chapter Six: Radical Educational Strategies; End of Part One: Reflections on the Research and Educational Implications of Chapters 1-6; Reflections: Realising the Challenges to Become a Public; Chapter Seven: What might turn social learning into social movements?; Chapter Eight: What is happening today in terms of social learning becoming social movements?; Chapter Nine: How do you get from social movements to public space?; Chapter Ten: Towards the creation of public spaces (All); Chapter Eleven: New Rules for Research, Social Learning and Creating a Socially Just World; End of Part Two: Discussion on the implications for research education; Discussion: The Critical role of publics in realising futures for a better present; Chapter Twelve: Making it Happen; Conclusion: No End; References; Index