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Audio: Stanley Aronowitz on Popular Education in a Time of Struggle'

category international | consumer issues | news report author Friday April 03, 2009 16:55author by Andrew recording Stanley Aronowitz - WSM (personal capacity)author email wsm_ireland at yahoo dot com Report this post to the editors

Recording of WSM meeting

This is a recording of Stanley Aronowitz speaking on 'Popular Education in a Time of Struggle' to a Workers Solidarity Movement meeting in the Seomra Spraoi Social centre, Dublin the end of March 2009. Stanley Aronowitz is professor of sociology, cultural studies, and urban education at the CUNY Graduate Center. He is also a veteran political activist and cultural critic and an advocate for organized labor.
Poster for meeting
Poster for meeting

The talk is pretty informal and starts with Stanley talking about his experiences before moving on to take questions on specific areas. Topics covered are listed below

Occupation of Brooklyn college over student newspaper ban
Being a steel worker & union organiser
Red baiting in the labor movement
Going to the New School
Paul Avrich on schools outside public education system
Struggles in the public school system for alternative schools
The Brecht forum
Murray Bookchin
Workers Centers & the Taxi workers alliance
Workers Education
The Murphy Institute

Q&A
Teaching Plato to working people
Relationship between Pop Ed and revolutionary change
Working class intellectuals
Gramsci
Paulo Freire's
Knowledge Factory
Overcoming codified jargon
Teaching line by line
Hope & Vision
Class formation
Revolutionary organisation & sympathisers
Does pop ed depend on an existing mass struggle
and more

Related Link: http://www.wsm.ie/public_newswire_1?topic=education



Stanley Aronowitz speaking to WSM meeting on popular education
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