Popular education by and for migrants. A study of preconditions for involvement of migrant study circle participants in the Swedish Workers’ Educational Association by Annika Pastuhov, Henrik Nordvall, Ali Osman

“…The aim of this study is to explore how migrants’ societal involvement is enabled and constrained by participation in study circles organised in a local branch of the Swedish Workers’ Educational Association (ABF). The study was designed and conducted in close cooperation with ABF. …”
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RAYMOND WILLIAMS E A EDUCAÇÃO DEMOCRÁTICA by Alexandro Henrique Paixão

“…RESUMO: Partindo de uma perspectiva combinada entre a sociologia da cultura e a história cultural, para enfatizar a experiência inglesa da educação de adultos contada a partir da história particular de Raymond Williams e de duas instituições, Universidade de Oxford e Workers’ Educational Association, este artigo discutirá como um saber pedagógico foi produzido a partir da relação entre um tutor e seus estudantes adultos no contexto do pós-guerra. …”
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Use-Values for Inclusion: Mobilizing Resources in Popular Education for Newly Arrived Refugees in Sweden by Nedžad Mešić, Magnus Dahlstedt, Andreas Fejes, Sofia Nyström

“…In this article, we direct our attention to the Workers’ Educational Association’s (ABF) state-funded work with refugees, with a specific focus on the activities conducted, the resources making them possible and the use-value of the resources mobilised. …”
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Raymond Williams, cultura e extensão universitária by Alexandro Henrique Paixão, Anderson Ricardo Trevisan

“…Trata-se de discutir textos do autor pouco conhecidos pelo público brasileiro, majoritariamente produzidos entre 1946 e 1961, dentro de um projeto de extensão entre a Universidade de Oxford e a Workers’ Educational Association (WEA). Para tais experiências de ensino, Williams se valia da literatura e do cinema, numa clivagem sociológica que pode ser percebida em diversas obras do autor, como Cultura e Sociedade, datada de 1958, realizada concomitantemente a essa experiência. …”
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Class matters by Fergal Finnegan, Barbara Merrill

“…This is connected to the influence of radical adult education on scholarship and pedagogy in some countries such as the Workers Educational Association in the UK, the folk high school movement in Scandinavia, and popular education in Latin America which were connected to democratic and socialist working-class movements which promoted class solidarity and social transformation (albeit understood in very varied ways). …”
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Alasdair MacIntyre's revolutionary peripateticism by Knight, Kelvin

“…This chapter explores the evolution of the political thought of Alasdair MacIntyre, from his time when he had worked as a political activist, as an academic, and for the Workers’ Education Association, teaching older, employed students who lacked the privileges of those brought up to enter Oxford or Cambridge, the LSE or Essex - to the summer of 2007 when he spoke at an industrial conflict at London Metropolitan University.…”
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‘Continually Walking a Tightrope’: Edith Pargeter’s Literary Crusade for Czechoslovakia by Suzanne Bray

“…During the Second World War she met Czechoslovak military personnel and, in 1947, visited the country in the context of a Workers' Education Association summer school. This visit was decisive for Pargeter who fell in love with Czechoslovakia. …”
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