A research report submitted to the Faculty of Education, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Education. / With the rise of the independent trade union movement since 1973, immense importance has been attached to worker education. The growth of the union movement created the space and provided the resources for workers to assert an independent cultural practice in which worker education plays pivotal role. Intense debate has raged within the union movement over the content, of this education, the way it is to be provided, who the recipients should be and whether it fulfils its perceived aim. There exists general consensus though that worker education has been integral to the development of the labour movement. Yet, there is no comprehensive study of worker education in South Africa. Such a study is even more necessary today as attempts are made to address the historical deficiencies in the South African education system, This report therefore is a small contribution toward understanding worker education and the importance of its role not only for the Labour: movement but for society at large. (Abbreviation abstract) / Andrew Chakane 2019

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Educar neste trabalho assume uma característica revolucionária. Educar está ligado à emancipação humana e à superação do capital. O educar necessário é para o não trabalho explorado, uma inserção subordinada ao capital na forma de emprego alienado. O educar nesta tese é para o trabalho que liberta e se apresenta como valor de uso capaz de criativamente libertar-se do valor de troca, do mercantil simples, ou seja, do trabalho como valor de troca. O trabalho e a educação para a reprodução da vida das desempregadas a que se refere este trabalho se apresentam como enfrentamentos às formas alienantes e subordinadas do capital e, ao mesmo tempo, como projetos de superação do mesmo. Fundamentamo-nos, principalmente, nos estudos de Marx, Oliveira, Gramsci, Engels, Iasi, Manacorda, Freire e Saviani. O trabalho é fundante do ser social e no conjunto de atividades intelectuais e manuais organizadas pela espécie. Para Marx (2010), os homens, para existirem, devem ser capazes de se reproduzir enquanto seres humanos. Uma forma específica desta reprodução é dada por uma peculiar relação dos seres humanos com a natureza através do trabalho. A categoria do trabalho emerge, desta forma, como categoria central do ser social. O conceito de educação esta baseado na definição da formação humana. A questão, portanto, que necessita ser examinada neste trabalho é em que consiste a formação humana de mulheres historicamente desempregadas e socialmente sobrantes nos meios de produção. Estamos aí diante de uma questão filosófica e de educação por excelência, ligada ao problema da possibilidade, do sentido, do valor e dos limites do trabalho. A metodologia da pesquisa-ação, cuja referência principal foi Fals Borda (2007, p. 103), permitiu que refletíssemos sobre “la justicia de las mayorías hoy ausentes, explotadas, ignoradas y sin voz lo cual llevaría a trabajos bastantes originales y, ante todo, útiles para la sociedad”. O método dialético permitiu reconstituir o movimento dos múltiplos determinantes que sintetizaram a possibilidade de alterações qualitativas em parte do contingente em questão. Concluímos basicamente que: a) a metodologia adotada nos possibilitou reflexões em torno da problemática mais próximas da realidade; b) as mulheres do MTD são sujeitos sociais mesmo que na condição de sobrantes, porque lutam e se organizam num Movimento Social por trabalho, educação e moradia; c) a educação necessária a estas mulheres precisa ir além, sendo necessário articular este processo à luta maior dos trabalhadores pela superação do capital. Defendemos, portanto, a tese de que a educação necessária é fundamentada no trabalho necessário socialmente útil, e não trabalho alienado, como valor de troca numa inserção subordinada ao capital. O educar, nesta tese, é para e no trabalho que liberta e se apresenta como valor de uso, capaz de criativamente construir processos de trabalho. Por fim, e não menos importante, esta tese pretende criar alternativas populares de transformação das estruturas sociais que tornam tal ‘vida’ exigente de ser sempre ‘melhorada’. Este fundamento teórico e político nem sempre se realizava na prática e transformava em ação social. / In this dissertation labor/work takes on a revolutionary characteristic, as it is connected to human emancipation and the overcoming of capital. The education that is necessary is education for non-exploited labor, labor that is not subordinated to capital in the form of alienated employment. In this dissertation education is for a labor that liberates and presents itself as use value capable of creatively freeing itself from labor as exchange value. The work and the education for the reproduction of life of the unemployed women to whom this dissertation refers are opposed to the alienating and subordinated forms of capital and are projects designed to overcome it. The dissertation is based mainly on studies by Marc, Oliveira, Gramsci, Engels, Iasi, Manacorda, Freire and Saviani. Labor is foundational for social beings in the ensemble of intellectual and manual activities organized by the human species. For Marx (2010), human beings, in order to exist, must be able to reproduce. A specific form of reproduction takes place through their peculiar relationship with nature through labor/work. Thus, labor emerges as a central category of social beings. The concept of education is based on the definition of the process of becoming fully human. Thus, the issue discussed by this dissertation is what this process means for women who are historically unemployed and socially excluded from the means of production. Thus, it faces a philosophical and educational question par excellence that is connected to the problem of possibility, meaning, value and the limits of work. The methodology of action research, whose main reference is Fals Borda (2007, p. 103), enables the author to reflect on “justice for the majorities who today are absent, exploited, ignored and voiceless, which would lead to works that are very original and mainly useful to society”. The dialectical method helped reconstruct the movement of the multiple determinants related to the possibility of qualitative changes in part of the women concerned. She basically concludes that (a) the methodology adopted facilitated reflections on the topic that were closer to reality; (b) the women of the Movement of Unemployed Workers are social subjects even if they are “left out”, since they struggle and organize in a social movement that pursues work, education and housing; (c) the education that is necessary for these women must “go beyond” in the sense of being articulated with wider struggle of workers for the overcoming of capital. Thus, she advances the thesis that the necessary education is based on the socially useful necessary work, rather than on alienated work, i.e. work as exchange value in subordination to capital. This means education for and in work that liberates and presents itself as use value capable of creatively constructing work processes. Last but not least, this dissertation intends to contribute to the creation of popular alternatives for the transformation of social structures that make such ‘life’ demand constant ‘improvement’. This theoretical and political foundation was not always realized in practice did not always become social action.

The concept of leisure education has been in use in Czech and Slovak environment since 1990 as a new label for after-class education. Leisure education is perceived as a branch of education involved in valorizing the leisure time of children and young adults. No Czech or Slovak publication has so far provided its complex classification or an overview of its origin, development, aims, approaches and overall practical use. The aim of the paper is to provide an overview of perception and understanding of leisure time in the works of selected Czech and Slovak authors in the last 20 years. The authors? conceptions of leisure education are confronted with one another with the aim to grasp the main developmental tendencies, forms and current aspirations of leisure education. The paper deals with the various definitions of the concept of leisure education and related concepts. The paper approaches the concept of leisure education from the viewpoint of its position within the classification of educational sciences, from the historical point of view and from the points of view of the individual authors and university subjects.

Educar neste trabalho assume uma característica revolucionária. Educar está ligado à emancipação humana e à superação do capital. O educar necessário é para o não trabalho explorado, uma inserção subordinada ao capital na forma de emprego alienado. O educar nesta tese é para o trabalho que liberta e se apresenta como valor de uso capaz de criativamente libertar-se do valor de troca, do mercantil simples, ou seja, do trabalho como valor de troca. O trabalho e a educação para a reprodução da vida das desempregadas a que se refere este trabalho se apresentam como enfrentamentos às formas alienantes e subordinadas do capital e, ao mesmo tempo, como projetos de superação do mesmo. Fundamentamo-nos, principalmente, nos estudos de Marx, Oliveira, Gramsci, Engels, Iasi, Manacorda, Freire e Saviani. O trabalho é fundante do ser social e no conjunto de atividades intelectuais e manuais organizadas pela espécie. Para Marx (2010), os homens, para existirem, devem ser capazes de se reproduzir enquanto seres humanos. Uma forma específica desta reprodução é dada por uma peculiar relação dos seres humanos com a natureza através do trabalho. A categoria do trabalho emerge, desta forma, como categoria central do ser social. O conceito de educação esta baseado na definição da formação humana. A questão, portanto, que necessita ser examinada neste trabalho é em que consiste a formação humana de mulheres historicamente desempregadas e socialmente sobrantes nos meios de produção. Estamos aí diante de uma questão filosófica e de educação por excelência, ligada ao problema da possibilidade, do sentido, do valor e dos limites do trabalho. A metodologia da pesquisa-ação, cuja referência principal foi Fals Borda (2007, p. 103), permitiu que refletíssemos sobre “la justicia de las mayorías hoy ausentes, explotadas, ignoradas y sin voz lo cual llevaría a trabajos bastantes originales y, ante todo, útiles para la sociedad”. O método dialético permitiu reconstituir o movimento dos múltiplos determinantes que sintetizaram a possibilidade de alterações qualitativas em parte do contingente em questão. Concluímos basicamente que: a) a metodologia adotada nos possibilitou reflexões em torno da problemática mais próximas da realidade; b) as mulheres do MTD são sujeitos sociais mesmo que na condição de sobrantes, porque lutam e se organizam num Movimento Social por trabalho, educação e moradia; c) a educação necessária a estas mulheres precisa ir além, sendo necessário articular este processo à luta maior dos trabalhadores pela superação do capital. Defendemos, portanto, a tese de que a educação necessária é fundamentada no trabalho necessário socialmente útil, e não trabalho alienado, como valor de troca numa inserção subordinada ao capital. O educar, nesta tese, é para e no trabalho que liberta e se apresenta como valor de uso, capaz de criativamente construir processos de trabalho. Por fim, e não menos importante, esta tese pretende criar alternativas populares de transformação das estruturas sociais que tornam tal ‘vida’ exigente de ser sempre ‘melhorada’. Este fundamento teórico e político nem sempre se realizava na prática e transformava em ação social. / In this dissertation labor/work takes on a revolutionary characteristic, as it is connected to human emancipation and the overcoming of capital. The education that is necessary is education for non-exploited labor, labor that is not subordinated to capital in the form of alienated employment. In this dissertation education is for a labor that liberates and presents itself as use value capable of creatively freeing itself from labor as exchange value. The work and the education for the reproduction of life of the unemployed women to whom this dissertation refers are opposed to the alienating and subordinated forms of capital and are projects designed to overcome it. The dissertation is based mainly on studies by Marc, Oliveira, Gramsci, Engels, Iasi, Manacorda, Freire and Saviani. Labor is foundational for social beings in the ensemble of intellectual and manual activities organized by the human species. For Marx (2010), human beings, in order to exist, must be able to reproduce. A specific form of reproduction takes place through their peculiar relationship with nature through labor/work. Thus, labor emerges as a central category of social beings. The concept of education is based on the definition of the process of becoming fully human. Thus, the issue discussed by this dissertation is what this process means for women who are historically unemployed and socially excluded from the means of production. Thus, it faces a philosophical and educational question par excellence that is connected to the problem of possibility, meaning, value and the limits of work. The methodology of action research, whose main reference is Fals Borda (2007, p. 103), enables the author to reflect on “justice for the majorities who today are absent, exploited, ignored and voiceless, which would lead to works that are very original and mainly useful to society”. The dialectical method helped reconstruct the movement of the multiple determinants related to the possibility of qualitative changes in part of the women concerned. She basically concludes that (a) the methodology adopted facilitated reflections on the topic that were closer to reality; (b) the women of the Movement of Unemployed Workers are social subjects even if they are “left out”, since they struggle and organize in a social movement that pursues work, education and housing; (c) the education that is necessary for these women must “go beyond” in the sense of being articulated with wider struggle of workers for the overcoming of capital. Thus, she advances the thesis that the necessary education is based on the socially useful necessary work, rather than on alienated work, i.e. work as exchange value in subordination to capital. This means education for and in work that liberates and presents itself as use value capable of creatively constructing work processes. Last but not least, this dissertation intends to contribute to the creation of popular alternatives for the transformation of social structures that make such ‘life’ demand constant ‘improvement’. This theoretical and political foundation was not always realized in practice did not always become social action.

Educar neste trabalho assume uma característica revolucionária. Educar está ligado à emancipação humana e à superação do capital. O educar necessário é para o não trabalho explorado, uma inserção subordinada ao capital na forma de emprego alienado. O educar nesta tese é para o trabalho que liberta e se apresenta como valor de uso capaz de criativamente libertar-se do valor de troca, do mercantil simples, ou seja, do trabalho como valor de troca. O trabalho e a educação para a reprodução da vida das desempregadas a que se refere este trabalho se apresentam como enfrentamentos às formas alienantes e subordinadas do capital e, ao mesmo tempo, como projetos de superação do mesmo. Fundamentamo-nos, principalmente, nos estudos de Marx, Oliveira, Gramsci, Engels, Iasi, Manacorda, Freire e Saviani. O trabalho é fundante do ser social e no conjunto de atividades intelectuais e manuais organizadas pela espécie. Para Marx (2010), os homens, para existirem, devem ser capazes de se reproduzir enquanto seres humanos. Uma forma específica desta reprodução é dada por uma peculiar relação dos seres humanos com a natureza através do trabalho. A categoria do trabalho emerge, desta forma, como categoria central do ser social. O conceito de educação esta baseado na definição da formação humana. A questão, portanto, que necessita ser examinada neste trabalho é em que consiste a formação humana de mulheres historicamente desempregadas e socialmente sobrantes nos meios de produção. Estamos aí diante de uma questão filosófica e de educação por excelência, ligada ao problema da possibilidade, do sentido, do valor e dos limites do trabalho. A metodologia da pesquisa-ação, cuja referência principal foi Fals Borda (2007, p. 103), permitiu que refletíssemos sobre “la justicia de las mayorías hoy ausentes, explotadas, ignoradas y sin voz lo cual llevaría a trabajos bastantes originales y, ante todo, útiles para la sociedad”. O método dialético permitiu reconstituir o movimento dos múltiplos determinantes que sintetizaram a possibilidade de alterações qualitativas em parte do contingente em questão. Concluímos basicamente que: a) a metodologia adotada nos possibilitou reflexões em torno da problemática mais próximas da realidade; b) as mulheres do MTD são sujeitos sociais mesmo que na condição de sobrantes, porque lutam e se organizam num Movimento Social por trabalho, educação e moradia; c) a educação necessária a estas mulheres precisa ir além, sendo necessário articular este processo à luta maior dos trabalhadores pela superação do capital. Defendemos, portanto, a tese de que a educação necessária é fundamentada no trabalho necessário socialmente útil, e não trabalho alienado, como valor de troca numa inserção subordinada ao capital. O educar, nesta tese, é para e no trabalho que liberta e se apresenta como valor de uso, capaz de criativamente construir processos de trabalho. Por fim, e não menos importante, esta tese pretende criar alternativas populares de transformação das estruturas sociais que tornam tal ‘vida’ exigente de ser sempre ‘melhorada’. Este fundamento teórico e político nem sempre se realizava na prática e transformava em ação social. / In this dissertation labor/work takes on a revolutionary characteristic, as it is connected to human emancipation and the overcoming of capital. The education that is necessary is education for non-exploited labor, labor that is not subordinated to capital in the form of alienated employment. In this dissertation education is for a labor that liberates and presents itself as use value capable of creatively freeing itself from labor as exchange value. The work and the education for the reproduction of life of the unemployed women to whom this dissertation refers are opposed to the alienating and subordinated forms of capital and are projects designed to overcome it. The dissertation is based mainly on studies by Marc, Oliveira, Gramsci, Engels, Iasi, Manacorda, Freire and Saviani. Labor is foundational for social beings in the ensemble of intellectual and manual activities organized by the human species. For Marx (2010), human beings, in order to exist, must be able to reproduce. A specific form of reproduction takes place through their peculiar relationship with nature through labor/work. Thus, labor emerges as a central category of social beings. The concept of education is based on the definition of the process of becoming fully human. Thus, the issue discussed by this dissertation is what this process means for women who are historically unemployed and socially excluded from the means of production. Thus, it faces a philosophical and educational question par excellence that is connected to the problem of possibility, meaning, value and the limits of work. The methodology of action research, whose main reference is Fals Borda (2007, p. 103), enables the author to reflect on “justice for the majorities who today are absent, exploited, ignored and voiceless, which would lead to works that are very original and mainly useful to society”. The dialectical method helped reconstruct the movement of the multiple determinants related to the possibility of qualitative changes in part of the women concerned. She basically concludes that (a) the methodology adopted facilitated reflections on the topic that were closer to reality; (b) the women of the Movement of Unemployed Workers are social subjects even if they are “left out”, since they struggle and organize in a social movement that pursues work, education and housing; (c) the education that is necessary for these women must “go beyond” in the sense of being articulated with wider struggle of workers for the overcoming of capital. Thus, she advances the thesis that the necessary education is based on the socially useful necessary work, rather than on alienated work, i.e. work as exchange value in subordination to capital. This means education for and in work that liberates and presents itself as use value capable of creatively constructing work processes. Last but not least, this dissertation intends to contribute to the creation of popular alternatives for the transformation of social structures that make such ‘life’ demand constant ‘improvement’. This theoretical and political foundation was not always realized in practice did not always become social action.

Because of the increased number of large corporations offering tuition-aid programs to their employees, there is a need to collect data and study the motivation for participation and barriers to participation for this population. A questionnaire, with items identifying motivational factors and barriers to participation in tuition-aid programs, was developed and sent to a sample of employees of a major corporation who do and who do not participate in that corporation's tuition-aid program. This study found that cost and time considerations are overwhelmingly cited as the chief barriers for participants and nonparticipants. Barriers identified as significant by both participants and nonparticipants were examined through a review of literature as to possible solutions to their elimination. The chief decision-makers in the 23 operating companies of the corporation rated each of the recommendations as to their feasibility in being implemented. The decision-makers rated prepayment and paying for material costs as the two lowest possible solutions they would consider implementing in order to reduce the barriers. What emerges clearly is the point that management must take a hard look at their present policies that appear to be barriers to participation in tuition-aid programs. The researcher developed a set of final recommendations along with a rationale for each. / Ed. D.

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Workers' education, a form of adult education, emphasized the study of economic and social problems from the workers' perspective. When the Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA) created its adult education program in 1933, workers' education classes were included. Between 1933 and 1943 thirty-six states participated in the federal experiment in workers' education. Seventeen of these states, including Indiana, were involved throughout the entire ten years of the program. With as many as two thousand teachers employed at one time, officials conservatively estimated that the program reached at least one million workers nation-wide.Three distinct phases of a federal workers' education program existed: FERA (1933-1935), Works Progress Administration (WPA--prior to separation from the other adult education programs, 1935-1939), and WPA Workers' Service Program (1939-1943). In separate chapters these phases of federal workers' education are examined from both the federal and state perspectives.FERA and WPA workers' education stimulated educational activities within the labor movement. For example, in Indiana this program was particularly popular among the new Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) unions. Federal workers' education activities also encouraged union-university cooperation and laid the foundation for labor education at Indiana University. In addition, the WPA Workers'' Service Program served as the model for a Federal Labor Extension Service, similar to the existing federal agricultural extension program, that, for reasons beyond the scope of this study, was never implemented.If nothing else, the FERA and WPA workers' education projects put thousands of unemployed people to work and helped the morale of both the relief recipients and the adults who attended classes. Never supported at levels necessary to reach a majority of the population, federal aid to workers' education was, at the very least, a sincere attempt by liberal relief administrators,educators, and labor leaders to serve the educational needs of American workers.Government documents, correspondence, and manuscript collections from the National Archives, Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, and Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, constitute the basic sources for this paper.

This thesis is a re-evaluation of a movement founded to provide what Samuel Smiles called “the road to learning” for workers in the nineteenth century. Mechanics’ institutes emerged during the 1820s to both criticism and acclaim, becoming part of the physical and intellectual fabric of the age and inspiring a nationwide building programme funded entirely by public subscription. Beginning with a handful of examples in major British cities, they eventually spread across the Anglophone world. They were at the forefront of public engagement with arts, science and technology. This thesis is a history of the mechanics’ institute movement in the British Isles from the 1820s through to the late 1860s, when State involvement in areas previously dominated by private enterprises such as mechanics’ institutes, for example library provision and elementary schooling, became more pronounced. The existing historiography on mechanics’ institutes is primarily regional in scope and this thesis breaks new ground by synthesising a national perspective on their wider social, political and cultural histories. It contributes to these broader themes, as well as areas as diverse as educational history, the history of public exhibition and public spaces, visual culture, print culture, popular literacy and literature (including literature generated by the Institutes themselves, such as poetry and prose composed by members), financial services, education in cultural and aesthetic judgement, Institutes as sources of protest by means of Parliamentary petitions, economic history, and the nature, theory and practice of the popular dissemination of ideas. These advances free the thesis from ongoing debate around the success or failure of mechanics’ institutes, allowing the emphasis to be on the experiential history of the “living” Institute. The diverse source base for the thesis includes art, sculpture, poetry and memoir alongside such things as economic data, library loan statistics, membership numbers and profit / loss accounts from institute reports. The methodology therefore incorporates qualitative (for example, tracing the evolution of attitudes towards Institutes in contemporary culture by analysing the language used to describe them over time) and quantitative (for example, exploring Institutes as providers of financial services to working people) techniques. For the first time, mechanics’ institutes are studied in relation to political corruption, debates concerning the morality of literature and literacy during the nineteenth century, and the legislative processes of the period.