Lifelong learning and the democratic imagination
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Lifelong learning and the democratic imagination

Revisioning justice, freedom and community

Edited by Peter Willis and Pam Carden.
ISBN: 1-876682-63-9 536pp
AUD $69.50 + p&p.

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Lifelong learning and the democratic imagination is a collection of essays from Adult and Community Educators in Australia, New Zealand, England, Scotland, Canada, America and South Africa. There is a general belief here that democracy is about people consciously sharing power and that such deliberate choices to share power, draw on ideals and values of sharing with and including others.

In modern life this generous and equitable stance has to be learned and re-learned against competing cultures of individualism and competition. Such learning needs more than logical argument. It occurs when powerful evocations of human equality and dignity capture the human imagination and move the heart. The work of this book is to pursue what needs to be done to generate suitable pre-dispositions for this unselfish sociable spirit to take root and grow.

The book has five sections. The first concerns visions of democratic imagining: the second looks at predispositions for democratic imagining. The last three explore the educational work of imagining democracy in three learning arenas: community and work locations, higher and work-related education and schools.

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Life Long learning and the democratic imagination seeks to reclaim for lifelong learning its original radical transformative impulse, which appears to have been submerged under instrumental economic aims.

Alison Mackinnon
Hawke Research Institute

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Contributions

  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part I - Visions of democratic imagining
  • Pedagogies of hope: Education, utopian imagination and the corporatising university - Peter Bishop
  • The old world doesn't want to leave, the new hesitates to come: Lifelong learning in shadowy time - Michael Welton
  • Thinking dialectically about Lifelong learning and democracy - Donovan Plumb
  • Dissolving the boundaries of the city: Eco-imagination and the ecology of compassion democracy - Aidan Davison and Martin Mulligan
  • Compassionate listening and reporting in the democratic imagination - Peter Willis
  • Imagining the real, and the work of education in democracy - Timothy Leonard
  • Teaching and learning to choose - Michael Newman
  • Part II - Predisposing for democratic imaging
  • Prelude: Together - Diana Neutze
  • Re-Imagining lifelong learning: A reading of T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets - Jane Dawson
  • No future with out spirituality? - William West
  • The emotional life of liturgy - Catherine Madsen
  • Thinking stereoscopically about self and social transformation - Robert Hattam
  • Songs for learning, songs for yearning - Ian Martin and Mae Shaw
  • Part III - Democratic imaging in community activities
  • Life would be a fair alternative: engaging the democratic imagination - Astrid Von Kotze
  • Drug users, democracy and voices from the summit - Kirsty Hammet
  • Activating democracy through community cultural development - Celina McEwen
  • Culture and democracy - Jon Hawkes
  • Contested funerals: 'Dead' and the democratic imagination - Pam Carden
  • Part IV - Democratic imaging in higher education
  • All mapped out? : The dynamic relationship between worldviews, democratic imaginations and education practices - Delia Bradshaw
  • Compassion and democratic imagining - Alex Nelson
  • 'We have gills for dream-life' Democratic collaborative innovations - Jan Coker
  • Inflaming the passion for democracy: Sparing democratic imagination in the university classroom - Kath Fisher and Lyn Carson
  • Writing and Re-writing our lives: Revisioning education, justice and inclusivity - Christine Fox
  • Part V - Democratic imaging in schooling
  • Democracy and the official curriculum - Alan Reid and Pat Thomson
  • 'The eyes/ayes have it' Reconciliation through Scaffolded Original Performance (ScOPe) - Janet Kajic Jackson
  • Imaging a community of practice - Tom Stehlik
  • Basketball and the democractic imagination - Bill Bradshaw
  • References
  • Notes on contributors
  • Subject index

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