Trade union education : transforming the world / edited by Mike Seal with introductions by Doug Nicholls.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Seal, Mike, editor.

Nicholls, Doug, contributor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Labor unions--Study and teaching--Great Britain.

Labor unions.

Working class--Education--Great Britain.

Working class.

Labor unions and education--Great Britain.

Labor unions and education.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (275 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; Leicestershire : Workable, 2017.

Summary:

This collection of essays challenges us to move trade union education forward through new theory and examples of best practice.

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Introduction

Notes from the editor

Section One: Key concepts and historical development

Introduction to Section One

1. What do we mean by 'trade union education'?

2. Key concepts in popular education

3. History and context of UK trade union education

4. The development of popular informal and community education, and youth and community work in the UK

Section Two: Contexts and challenges

Introduction to Section Two

5. Social movement unionism in New Zealand and the UK: the need for contextualized engagement

6. Backstory: a Unite approach to political education

7. The future of community education: what role for trade unions in promoting the co-production of knowledge and culture and supporting democratic institutionalization?

8. Reconnecting trade union education, politics and self-reliance

Section Three: Implementing critical education in the classroom and beyond

Introduction to Section Three

9. Seeing education in everything we do

10. Getting it right and mixing it up: practical ideas for helping learners to get the best out of the education we provide

11. Responding to social-movement trade unionism within education

12. General Federation of Trade Unions youth festivals: critical education in action

13. Popular education in practice: a case study of radical educational praxis in a contemporary UK university

14. The Northern College: social-purpose mission and pedagogy

Section Four: Learning from the world

Introduction to Section Four

15. A comet in the night: Julio Antonio Mella and the genesis of popular education in Cuba

16. Learning from Latin America: experiences of training in ESNA

About the authors

Acknowledgements

References

Reading and resources

Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781780264264

1780264267

OCLC:

1124588539