015143 Contexts and Strategies in Community Education

A challenge for adult and community educators is how to use education as a way to help people critically evaluate and understand themselves, and the world around them, and to see themselves as active participants in that world. Community educators often work to help disempowered individuals and groups – for example, the unemployed, young people, prisoners, the aged, victims of discrimination – come to see themselves as creators of culture, history and an alternative social vision. This subject aims to help educators to develop their capacity to work with critical and activist forms of education and learning which contribute to social justice.