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Overcoming Alienation as the Practice of Adult Education: The Contribution of Erich Fromm to a Critical Theory of Adult Learning and Education.
- Source :
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Adult Education Quarterly . Feb 2002 52(2):96-111. - Publication Year :
- 2002
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Abstract
- Erich Fromm proposed that learning to penetrate ideological obfuscation and overcome the alienation it generates is the learning task of adulthood. He believed adult education would make people aware of ideological manipulation and prepare them for participatory democracy. His was a Marxist humanism aimed at the creation of democratic socialism. (Contains 24 references.) (SK)
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 0741-7136
- Volume :
- 52
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- ERIC
- Journal :
- Adult Education Quarterly
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- EJ638694
- Document Type :
- Journal Articles