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Out of over 40 years of experience in adult or worker education, David Greene brings us tools to develop consciousness and leadership for social change. Based on the power of our huge working class to understand this economic system and to organize, this book aims to empower educators, students and other workers with science applied to solving the serious social problems we face today.
We are confronted with the issues of low-wage, part-time and temporary jobs, inadequate housing, health care, and transportation, inequality and injustice, at the same time as the greatest concentration of wealth in human history. The disparity of wealth and control has never been greater. The only way out of this deepening crisis is through education. To change this we need understanding that is based on the clearest reflection of the real world. Unfit to Be a Slave employs the tools of theory and informed practice, to guide us to create spaces to share experience, study history’s lessons and develop consciousness.
As a collective and organized force we can transform our communities, our countries and our world. Mythologies that tell people, ‘Things don’t change,’ ‘We can’t do anything,’ or ‘It has always been this way,’ prevent poor and working class populations from taking necessary action on behalf of their own lives and families. Unfit to Be a Slave is meant to be a guide to education for social change.
We are confronted with the issues of low-wage, part-time and temporary jobs, inadequate housing, health care, and transportation, inequality and injustice, at the same time as the greatest concentration of wealth in human history. The disparity of wealth and control has never been greater. The only way out of this deepening crisis is through education. To change this we need understanding that is based on the clearest reflection of the real world. Unfit to Be a Slave employs the tools of theory and informed practice, to guide us to create spaces to share experience, study history’s lessons and develop consciousness.
As a collective and organized force we can transform our communities, our countries and our world. Mythologies that tell people, ‘Things don’t change,’ ‘We can’t do anything,’ or ‘It has always been this way,’ prevent poor and working class populations from taking necessary action on behalf of their own lives and families. Unfit to Be a Slave is meant to be a guide to education for social change.
Price: $113.00
Pages: 156
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Anti-colonial Educational Perspectives for Transformative Change
Publication Date:
01 January 2015
ISBN: 9789462099340
Format: Hardcover
"This book is a clarion call to adult educators to expand their repertoire to include understanding the political and economic system in order to mobilize against it... This brief volume is filled with anecdotes, both infuriating and hopeful, exemplifying both oppressive and liberating educational practices in the ongoing struggle against unfettered Capitalism... Beyond its critique of current practice, Unfit to Be a Slave is a manual for popular educators working for social change. It provides broad avenues for generating eye opening discussions of economic and political barriers to our freedom. Examples are drawn largely from popular education, but suggested topics and themes are relevant to more formal venues as well. " — in: Adult Education Quarterly (2016)
"Outstanding book... This highly illuminating and quite often autobiographical book is substantially enriched through the author’s forty years of teaching in adult education in the USA providing a wealth of insights, factual case studies (auto workers union and mining unions, etc.) as well as a historical overview of adult education. This is considerably improved through international comparisons (Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua, Zimbabwe, etc.). Greene’s exquisite book is divided into eight well structured, methodical and didactically superbly crafted chapters starting with ‘learning for life’that presents the basics of critical pedagogy. " — in: Australian Universities’ Review (2016)
"Outstanding book... This highly illuminating and quite often autobiographical book is substantially enriched through the author’s forty years of teaching in adult education in the USA providing a wealth of insights, factual case studies (auto workers union and mining unions, etc.) as well as a historical overview of adult education. This is considerably improved through international comparisons (Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua, Zimbabwe, etc.). Greene’s exquisite book is divided into eight well structured, methodical and didactically superbly crafted chapters starting with ‘learning for life’that presents the basics of critical pedagogy. " — in: Australian Universities’ Review (2016)