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Michael Newman—a two-time winner of the Cyril O. Houle Award for Outstanding Literature in Adult Education—examines the use of rational discourse, nonrational discourse, and storytelling to bring about personal and collective change. Using a powerful blend of theoretical discussion and step-by-step accounts of practice, Newman returns to what actually happens in that magical encounter between teacher and learner. He examines the educational use of emotions such as frustration, dismay, anger, hatred and love. He proposes ways of teaching and learning insight. He examines how educators can teach people to take effective action. And he discusses how educators and learners can work together to make that action morally justifiable. Newman argues that the educator’s role is to help people resist the controls imposed on them by others. The task, the challenge, the mission of the activist educator is to teach defiance.
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Stressing the importance of his ideas during a time when countries are at war in Iraq, Newman describes the concept of teaching defiance to adults using rational and nonrational discourse and stories. He uses examples from Australia and around the world in discussing themes of rebelliousness, defiance, consciousness, and choice; and how teachers can educate people to use discourse to analyze, communicate, and create change in decision-making and negotiation. Encouraging insight and turning it into action is also discussed, in which he uses examples of literature, metaphor, and role-play, among others. The book is aimed at those in community adult education, activist education, organizations, universities, and trade unions and labor organizations. Newman is an author and consultant in the field of adult education and has been a visiting scholar internationally. Jossey-Bass is an imprint of Wiley. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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