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Liberating Knowledge - Research, Feminism and Adult Education (Paperback)
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Liberating Knowledge - Research, Feminism and Adult Education (Paperback)
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Loot Price R363
Discovery Miles 3 630
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While knowledge can be liberating, what counts as knowledge is
contestable. Drawing on her experience in adult education, research
and feminist theory and practice, Jean Barr mounts a radical
challenge to current orthodoxies in adult learning and continuing
education and proposes a programme of research which is geared to
articulating urgent problems with people other than academics.
Running through the book is the recognition that methodology
underpins all theory-making. Questions of whom we hear, whom we
address and how, are key methodological, epistemological and
political issues. How these questions are answered is crucial to
the kind of theory or knowledge which is produced. The guiding
metaphor is that of 'healing the breach' between 'words and things'
and between forms of knowledge which are usually separated in our
culture: cerebral and emotional understanding; literary and
scientific knowledge; knowledge developed 'from above' or 'from
below'. "Liberating knowledge" will appeal to those interested in a
radical and democratising education which reaches beyond the
academy. It is particularly relevant to participants and tutors of
women's studies who wish to cross the boundaries between arts,
social science and natural science, and to those involved in
community-based adult education.
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