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Wiggins, Noelle – Studies in the Education of Adults, 2011
In critical and feminist educational circles there has been a lively debate between those who call for more emphasis on contextualisation and concrete practices and those who defend a more generalised view of critical pedagogy. The unceasing march of corporate globalisation and neoliberalism make it absolutely urgent that educators and organisers…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Justice, Popular Education, Critical Theory
Payne, E. George – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1922
No movement in education in recent years has taken hold of the imagination and emotions of the American business man more effectively than education in accident prevention. This appeal to the business man is perhaps due more than anything else to the fact that when the educator begins to talk of education in terms of saving human lives he is using…
Descriptors: Accident Prevention, Safety Education, Accidents, Laborers
Orr, William – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1919
At the time when the first Young Men's Christian Associations in North America were organized in 1851, at Montreal and Boston, there appears to have been little thought of including a definite educational program in the work of these associations. Such educational work as was done was limited to reading rooms libraries, a few lectures, and, from…
Descriptors: Males, Social Development, Summer Schools, Youth Programs