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D Intellectual Resistance As Impetus For Lifelong Learning For Social Justice, Kristopher Wells
D Intellectual Resistance As Impetus For Lifelong Learning For Social Justice, Kristopher Wells
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This paper employs critical social learning perspectives to investigate the themes of emotional resilience, intellectual resistance, and lifelong learning evident in the experiences of three gay male young adults whom I situate as activist-educators. I discuss how these young adults integrate emotional labour and social learning into resistance work to create counterpublics, which lay challenge to exclusionary heteronormative educational spaces.
“I Am One Dedicated Person Working For Freedom”: Septima P. Clark’S Contributions To Social Justice Adult Education At Highlander Folk School, Lisa M. Baumgartner
“I Am One Dedicated Person Working For Freedom”: Septima P. Clark’S Contributions To Social Justice Adult Education At Highlander Folk School, Lisa M. Baumgartner
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This paper unearths Septima P. Clark’s contributions to adult education efforts at Highlander Folk School. Autobiographical texts and archival holdings were analyzed through a critical, feminist lens to determine her contributions. In addition, the adult education strategies she utilized in her work were examined using a Freireian framework.