Theorising education and learning in social movements: environmental justice campaigns in Scotland and India

Scandrett, Eurig; Crowther, Jim; Hemmi, Akiko; Mukherjee, Suroopa; Shah, Dharmesh; Sen, Tarunima

doi:10.1080/02660830.2010.11661593

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“…SML happens when individuals learn as a result of their involvement with social movements (Duguid, Mündel, & Schugurensky, 2007). Envisioning the field of HRD as a community of scholars and practitioners who are concerned for more socially just organizations is consistent with the idea that “social movements are epistemological communities” (Scandrett et al, 2010, p. 124) and supports Grenier’s acknowledgment in the preface that such communities will “take part in the creation and dissemination of knowledge, theory and culture through both ‘cognitive praxis’ and the establishment of spaces of social learning” (p. xx).…”

Section: The Significance and Need For Social Justice Educationsupporting

confidence: 57%

Using Artistic Expression as a Teaching Strategy for Social Justice: Examining Music From the Civil Rights and Black Lives Matter Movements

Bohonos

Otchere

Pak

2019

Advances in Developing Human Resources

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The Problem Members of organizations often struggle to grasp the importance of social movements and to understand the affective dimensions of the injustices that inspire them to be organized. The Solution We argued that combining artistic expression with social movement learning (SML) in human resource development (HRD) can help members of the dominant culture to better empathize with those who experience marginalization. This will help organizations to better relate to social movements and to more effectively address related injustices. The Stakeholders HRD scholars and practitioners as well as those engaged in social movements.

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Section: The Significance and Need For Social Justice Educationsupporting

confidence: 57%

Using Artistic Expression as a Teaching Strategy for Social Justice: Examining Music From the Civil Rights and Black Lives Matter Movements

Bohonos

Otchere

Pak

2019

Advances in Developing Human Resources

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“…It should be noted that the dualism of the OSM/NSM framework does not fully represent the “range and interconnectedness of the politics of social movements” (Holst, 2011, p. 118). This notwithstanding, Scandrett et al (2010) note that “social movements are epistemological communities” (p. 124) that take part in the creation and dissemination of knowledge, theory, and culture through both “cognitive praxis” and the establishment of spaces of social learning.…”

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Speaking Truth to Power Through Social Movements and Learning

Grenier

2019

Advances in Developing Human Resources

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Originating in the 1950's Quaker Community (see Sawyer, 1956), the expression "speaking truth to power" illustrates a spirit of resistance to dominant power structures and the belief that persuasion, such as through social movements, will defeat injustice. Walters (2005) defines social movements as "voluntary associations of people and organisations within civil society that rise and fall in response to particular social, economic, ideological, and political changes and issues often driven by the state or the market" (p. 54). This concept was embodied in collective actions like the Anti-Apartheid Movement (AAM), Poland's Solidarity Movement, the Temperance Movement in the United States, and more recently through Black Lives Matter, the Arab Spring, the Umbrella Movement, the Women's March on Washington, and #MeToo. National and transnational social movements such as these, and smaller community-based social movements, demonstrate the power of organized or tactical collectives born out of unrest. Driven by both dissatisfaction with current conditions and the potential for a new system of living, the movements seek to establish a new order by changing thoughts, policy, ideology, and actions that seek to "speak truth to power" (Blumer, 1951; Heberle, 1951; McCarthy & Zald, 1977). Movements serve as a means for critiquing the legitimacy and function of institutions and ideologies and often provide a means for reform. Social movements have previously been categorized as either an old social movement (OSM) or a new social movement (NSM) (Dykstra & Law, 1994). OSMs traditionally focus on class struggles, specifically, the unfair distribution of resources and the movement's role in enacting change to cause equal distribution (Buechler, 1995). NSMs involve social

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“…This early work debated the nature of “Old” versus “New” social movements as learning sites (Finger, 1989; Spencer, 1995; Welton, 1993) and learning, cognitive theory and the creation of knowledge in social movements (Holford, 1995), respectively. Theorizing of SML has continued to be taken up in other adult education literature over the past two decades as well (Clover, 2002; Hall, 2009; Hill, 2003; Holst, 2018; Kapoor, 2013; Kilgore, 1999; Ollis, 2012; Scandrett et al, 2010; Zielińska, Kowzan, & Prusinowska, 2011).…”

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Conceptualizing Learning in the Climate Justice Movement

Kluttz

Walter

2018

Adult Education Quarterly

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This article extends Scandrett et al.’s conceptual framework for social movement learning to understand learning and knowledge creation in the climate justice movement. Drawing on radical pluralist theoretical approaches to social movement learning, learning in the climate justice movement is conceptualized at the micro, meso, and macro levels, along two continua of (a) unorganized and organized learning and (b) individual and collective learning. Two critical themes of learning about power and learning about place are used as examples to illustrate learning across the three levels. Article conclusions discuss strengths and limitations of the conceptual framework and directions for further research to better understand adult learning within the climate justice movement.

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Theorising education and learning in social movements: environmental justice campaigns in Scotland and India

Cited by 25 publications

References 13 publications

Using Artistic Expression as a Teaching Strategy for Social Justice: Examining Music From the Civil Rights and Black Lives Matter Movements

Using Artistic Expression as a Teaching Strategy for Social Justice: Examining Music From the Civil Rights and Black Lives Matter Movements

Speaking Truth to Power Through Social Movements and Learning

Conceptualizing Learning in the Climate Justice Movement

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