https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/36525 2026-04-04T22:49:19Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/19944 Title: [Book review] Schugurensky, D. Paulo Freire (Vol. 16) Authors: Tarlau, Rebecca Abstract: Rebecca Tarlau reviews Paulo Freire (Vol. 16) by Daniel Schugurensky which is part of a series of philosophical biographies of educational scholars, which promote the idea “that theories and the practices that follow from them are vitally important for education. 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/19942 Title: Editorial : adult and popular education Editors: Boughton, Bob; Durnan, Deborah Abstract: The field of adult education enjoys a long but also contradictory and problematic relationship with postcolonial studies. On the one hand, the radical tradition of adult education in the west has always sought to make alliances with anti-colonial struggles, though very little of this history finds its way today into adult education chronicles. This editorial gives a brief overview of the various pieces found in this volume. 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/19935 Title: Reigniting the popular education tradition in South Africa : research and launch of a website (www.populareducation.co.za) Authors: von Kotze, Astrid Abstract: Popular Education initiatives in working class communities have been an integral part of people’s efforts to respond to the lack of education and cultural facilities under apartheid. In South Africa, in the eighties, ‘People’s Education’ was one response to deep economic, political and social crises reflected in and impacting on the education crisis. People’s Education was both an educational and a political programme. Remarkably, a wide range of concerned parties from within civil society, the private sector, academia, and trade unions got together and debated vigorously about both how to address the crisis, and how to imagine and forge an alternative education, for the future, together. 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/19933 Title: A social worker, a community development worker and an adult educator walk into a bar : on strange bedfellows and social pedagogy Authors: Schugurensky, Daniel Abstract: With a long tradition that can be traced to the 19th century, social pedagogy has evolved as a discipline that combines educational and social perspectives and interventions. Since its origins, it has been concerned with the mutual relations between human development, on the one hand, and the development of a just and democratic society, on the other. Whereas in a few countries social pedagogy is a professional occupation recognized by the state, in most places it constitutes a framework that contributes to other occupations, and at the same time is informed by other fields. Prominent among these fields are social work, community development, and youth and adult education. This paper discusses the particular features of these three fields and their connections to social pedagogy. 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z