The "Autodidact", the Pursuit of Subversive Knowledge and the Politics of Change

Autor/inn/en	Fisher, Pamela; Fisher, Roy
Titel	The "Autodidact", the Pursuit of Subversive Knowledge and the Politics of Change
Quelle	In: Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 28 (2007) 4, S.515-529 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0159-6306
Schlagwörter	Political Attitudes; Foreign Countries; Educational Opportunities; Higher Education; Learning Processes; Aptitude Treatment Interaction; Critical Theory; Social Change; Marxian Analysis; Intellectual History; Independent Study; Active Learning; Politics of Education; United Kingdom (Great Britain) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Political attitude; Politische Einstellung; Ausland; Bildungsangebot; Bildungschance; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Learning process; Lernprozess; Kritische Theorie; Sozialer Wandel; Marxism; Marxismus; Geistesgeschichte; Selbststudium; Aktives Lernen; Educational policy; Bildungspolitik
Abstract	This paper contrasts two types of "autodidact" located in the UK in different historical periods, which utilised different learning/research technologies to different ends. From the 1920s to the 1960s some working-class activists committed to the Communist Party of Great Britain became "educated" in Marxism (and more) through the processes intrinsic to their politics. This radical acculturation was undertaken outside the universities in consequence of both an absence of access to higher education and because of the relatively enclosed social world of British Communism. The widening of educational opportunities and the decline of political Marxism effectively extinguished this kind of autodidact. New technologies have meant that the 21st century is witnessing individuals and cyber-communities that are creating knowledge-based challenges to professional and institutional power in the face of personal/family "medical" crises. The paper outlines the characteristics of these two categories of autodidact and a new terrain of counter-hegemonic learning. (Contains 4 notes and 1 table.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10