Learning through Community Exploring Participatory Practices

This book is a collection of case studies that explore the learning that people do through community engagement. Developed within a network of Canadian researchers and their community partners, it explores learning that is organized by the learners themselves, collectively, rather than as individual...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Church, Kathryn (Editor), Bascia, Nina (Editor), Shragge, Eric (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 2008, 2008
Edition:1st ed. 2008
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Out of Bounds: Situating Ourselves
  • The Turbulence of Academic Collaboration
  • Participation and Learning in Turbulent Times: Negotiations Between the Community and the Personal
  • From the “Margins”: Case Studies
  • Women, Violence and Informal Learning
  • Stigma to Sage: Learning and Teaching Safer Sex Practices Among Canadian Sex Trade Workers
  • Informal Civic Learning Through Engagement in Local Democracy: The Case of the Seniors' Task Force of Healthy City Toronto
  • While No One is Watching: Learning in Social Action Among People who are Excluded from the Labour Market
  • Knowledge Collisions: Perspectives from Community Economic Development Practitioners Working with Women
  • Teacher's Informal Learning, Identity and Contemporary Education Reform
  • Learning Through Struggle: How the Alberta Teachers' Association Maintains an Even Keel
  • Formalizing the Informal: From Informal to Organizational Learning in the Post-Industrial Workplace