Education for Changing Unions presents a rich, stimulating, and provocative storehouse of practical and structured activities, ideas, and debate about union education. Written in a clear and accessible style, the authors have created a book to inspire working people and teachers in many settings and locations. All the exercises and activities have been widely tested. Six thematic threads tie the book together: community, democracy, equity, class consciousness, organization building, and the greater good. Evaluation, strategic planning, and survival for the long haul round out the discussion. See also the popular companion book, Educating for a Change, Martin et al. (BTL, 1991).
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The five authors are all seasoned community and union activists with several decades of combined experience. They have written widely on education and equality.
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Real Education for Working People,
By Donald P. Taylor (Madison, Wisconsin) - See all my reviews
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This book is perhaps the most valuable contribution to union education in many years. More unions need to understand that education is not about information, it is about transformation. It is about helping working people understand the world around them and how they have the power to change it. This isn't done by telling them about it, or by giving them a fancy PowerPoint presentation. It is done by using their own experience and knowledge to help them transform their understanding. This book has an excellent balance of foundation and practicality, including a large number of "recipes" in the form of the authors' favorite union education exercises. Even though I've read it more than once, I take it off the shelf every time I design a new curriculum. It has helped me completely deconstruct and rebuild every educational program in my union, and the results have been inspiring. If more unions took this direction instead of treating their members as empty vessels to be filled with information by "experts," we'd have a very different labor movement in the United States. Finally, though, I have to say that what you find between these pages is not limited to unions in its application. Community groups, religious activists, and all movements for change can gain a great deal from it.
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THIS BOOK IS OUR EFFORT to put on paper what we've learned collectively in decades of union work, and shared in two years of intense dialogue. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
labour educators, central labour body, equity lens, union educators, union education, labour education, union moments, labour council, health promoters, spiral model Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Regina Labour, Hoi Yee, Red Road, Quebec City, Rosa Parks, Asia-Pacific Regional, Canadian Labour Congress, Latin America, United States, Montreal Labour, True Li False Li Don't, Paulo Freire, Union Edvc, Saskatchewan Federation of Labour, Tim Brown, William Holland, Workcr Edvcafior Pro, World Bank New!
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THIS BOOK IS OUR EFFORT to put on paper what we've learned collectively in decades of union work, and shared in two years of intense dialogue. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
labour educators, central labour body, equity lens, union educators, union education, labour education, union moments, labour council, health promoters, spiral model Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Regina Labour, Hoi Yee, Red Road, Quebec City, Rosa Parks, Asia-Pacific Regional, Canadian Labour Congress, Latin America, United States, Montreal Labour, True Li False Li Don't, Paulo Freire, Union Edvc, Saskatchewan Federation of Labour, Tim Brown, William Holland, Workcr Edvcafior Pro, World Bank New!
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- Educating For A Change by Rick Arnold on page 64, page 73, and Back Matter
- The Ugly American by Eugene Burdick on page 38, and Back Matter
- The Ugly American by Eugene Burdick William Julius Lederer on page 38, and Back Matter
- Becoming An Ally: Breaking the Cycle of Oppression by Anne Bishop on page 6, and Back Matter
- Prison Notebooks, Volume 3 (vol. 3) by Antonio Gramsci in Back Matter
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- BRIDGE: Building a Race and Immigration Dialogue in the Global Economy - A Popular Education Resource For Immigrant And Refugee Community Organizers by National NETWORK FOR IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE RIGHTS (eds) on 6 pages
- Reclaiming the Ivory Tower: Organizing Adjuncts to Change Higher Education by Joe Berry in Back Matter
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