- Title
- Think Piece. Working for Living: Popular Education as/at Work for Social-ecological Justice
- Creator
- Burt, Jane C, James, Anna, Walters, Shirley, Von Kotze, Astrid
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date
- 2020
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/388150
- Identifier
- vital:68310
- Identifier
- xlink:href="https://www.ajol.info/index.php/sajee/article/view/165826"
- Description
- Drawing on the working lives of popular educators who are striving for socioeconomic and socio-ecological justice, we demonstrate how popular education is a form of care work which is feminised, often undervalued and unrecognised as highly skilled work. It is relational work that aims to forge solidarity with communities and the environment. Given the state of the planet, the radical transformations that are needed, and the future projection of ‘work’ as including the care economy in large measure, we argue that popular education is a generative site for further exploration of research into work and learning. However, to move popular education as work from the margins means to rethink the current economic system of value. Addressing the contradiction that undervalues work for life/living, popular education engages transformative action motivated by a deep sense of solidarity and a focus on imagining alternatives as an act of hope.
- Format
- computer, online resource, application/pdf, 1 online resource (12 pages), pdf
- Publisher
- Southern African Journal of Environmental Education
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Southern African Journal of Environmental Education, Burt, J., James, A.K., Walters, S. and Von Kotze, A., 2020. Think Piece: Working for Living-Popular Education as/at Work for Social-ecological Justice. Southern African Journal of Environmental Education, 36, Southern African Journal of Environmental Education volume 36 p. 9 2020 2411-5959
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- Publisher
- Rights
- Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of Southern African Journal of Environmental Education Copyright and Permissions Statement (https://www.ajol.info/index.php/sajee)
- Rights
- Open Access
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Burt, Jane Caroline (Ms)
RU DST/NRF SARChI for Global Change Social Learning Systems Development: Transformative Learning and Green Skills Learning (ELRC)
RU Department of Education
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