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By Peter Willis, Pam Carden

Published: 2004
ISBN: 978-1-876682-63-7
Pages: 536
Imprint: Post Pressed

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Temporarily Out of Print

Lifelong Learning and the Democratic Imagination is a collection of essays from Adult and Community Educators in Australia, New Zealand, England, Scotland, Canada, America and South Africa. There is a general belief here that democracy is about people consciously sharing power and that such deliberate choices to share power, draw on ideals and values of sharing with and including others.

In modern life this generous and equitable stance has to be learned and re-learned against competing cultures of individualism and competition. Such learning needs more than logical argument. It occurs when powerful evocations of human equality and dignity capture the human imagination and move the heart. The work of this book is to pursue what needs to be done to generate suitable pre-dispositions for this unselfish sociable spirit to take root and grow.

The book has five sections. The first concerns visions of democratic imagining: the second looks at predispositions for democratic imagining. The last three explore the educational work of imagining democracy in three learning arenas: community and work locations, higher and work-related education and schools.

Pedagogies of hope: Education, utopian imagination and the corporatising university
Peter Bishop
The old world doesn't want to leave, the new hesitates to come: Lifelong learning in shadowy time
Michael Welton
Thinking dialectically about Lifelong learning and democracy
Donovan Plumb
Dissolving the boundaries of the city: Eco-imagination and the ecology of compassion democracy
Aidan Davison and Martin Mulligan
Compassionate listening and reporting in the democratic imagination
Peter Willis
Imagining the real, and the work of education in democracy
Timothy Leonard
Teaching and learning to choose
Michael Newman

Part II - Predisposing for Democratic Imaging

Prelude: Together
Diana Neutze
Re-Imagining lifelong learning: A reading of TS Eliot's Four Quartets
Jane Dawson
No future with out spirituality?
William West
The emotional life of liturgy
Catherine Madsen
Thinking stereoscopically about self and social transformation
Robert Hattam
Songs for learning, songs for yearning
Ian Martin and Mae Shaw

Part III - Democratic Imaging in Community Activities

Life would be a fair alternative: engaging the democratic imagination
Astrid Von Kotze
Drug users, democracy and voices from the summit
Kirsty Hammet
Activating democracy through community cultural development
Celina McEwen
Culture and democracy
Jon Hawkes
Contested funerals: 'Dead' and the democratic imagination
Pam Carden

Part IV - Democratic Imaging in Higher Education

All mapped out? The dynamic relationship between worldviews, democratic imaginations and education practices
Delia Bradshaw
Compassion and democratic imagining
Alex Nelson
'We have gills for dream-life': Democratic collaborative innovations
Jan Coker
Inflaming the passion for democracy: Sparing democratic imagination in the university classroom
Kath Fisher and Lyn Carson
Writing and Re-writing our lives: Revisioning education, justice and inclusivity
Christine Fox

Part V - Democratic Imaging in Schooling

Democracy and the official curriculum
Alan Reid and Pat Thomson
'The eyes/ayes have it': Reconciliation through Scaffolded Original Performance (ScOPe)
Janet Kajic Jackson
Imaging a community of practice
Tom Stehlik
Basketball and the democratic imagination
Bill Bradshaw

References
Notes on contributors
Subject index

Reviews

Life Long Learning and the Democratic Imagination seeks to reclaim for lifelong learning its original radical transformative impulse, which appears to have been submerged under instrumental economic aims.

Alison Mackinnon
Hawke Research Institute