Consciousness-Raising

Critical Pedagogy and Practice for Social Change
Herausgeber: Yu, Nilan

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Produktbeschreibung

This book is about conscientisation or the raising of consciousness - the awakening of the mind to what some refer to as 'social reality'. It features accounts of the life experiences of people and how they broke free from dominant ways of thinking that significantly influenced their early lives. It will be of interest to pra

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 188
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. August 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 295g
• ISBN-13: 9780367589233
• ISBN-10: 0367589230
• Artikelnr.: 69895306

Autorenporträt

Nilan Yu is a lecturer in social work at the University of South Australia. He has been involved in teaching and researching social work and social development for over two decades. Before joining academia, he was engaged in community development work in urban communities populated by informal settlers/squatters in the Philippines. His current research interests are in the areas of disability, migration and its intersections with disability, ageing, critical practice and policy. He is co-editor of the book Subversive action: Extralegal practices for social justice (with Deena Mandell, 2015) and Faces of homelessness in the Asia Pacific (with Carole Zufferey, 2017).

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; Acknowledgements;
Chapter 1: Consciousness-raising and critical practice Nilan Yu; Chapter 2:
Touching the untouchable: Dalit empowerment through consciousness-raising
in an Indian village Archana Kaushik, Lenin Raghuvanshi & Mohanlal Panda;
Chapter 3: Critical consciousness-raising amongst poor Rakhine villages in
rural Myanmar Anthony Ware and Vicki-Ann Ware; Chapter 4:
Consciousness-raising among rural women in Bangladesh: a study of BRAC
Microfinance Program participants Faraha Nawaz; Chapter 5: Gendered
violence in the Australian context: feminist consciousness-raising Carole
Zufferey; Chapter 6: Colliding identities: Gay Muslim men in a liberal
secular society Ella R Kahu and Keith Tuffin; Chapter 7: 'We could have,
you know, a revolution': consciousness-raising and self-advocacy for people
with intellectual disabilities in 1980s Victoria David Henderson and
Christine Bigby; Chapter 8: Paulo Freire and education for liberation: the
case of the Landless Rural Workers Movement (MST) Wilder Robles; Chapter 9:
'From the river to the sea' - Promoting Palestinian resistance through
praxis Michael Lavalette, Tracy Ramsey and Mohammed Amara; Chapter 10:
Critical consciousness and social change Nilan Yu; Index