Michael R Welton
Biographic Data
| ID | 448127 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael R Welton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael R |
| FAMILY NAME | Welton |
| SIGNATURE | WELTON M R |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The educator needs to be educated
This essay examines one of the most intractable pedagogical problems of the Marxian revolutionary tradition: who will educate the educator and how ought the learning process to proceed. The solutions of Marx, Lenin and Habermas are critically examined towards the clarification of the emancipatory learning process. This learning process has three components: enlightenment, empowerment and emancipatory collective action. Lessons are drawn for our o…
Volunteerism as the seedbed of democracy
(1997). Volunteerism as the seedbed of democracy: the educational thought and practice of Guy Henson of Nova Scotia. Studies in the Education of Adults: Vol. 29, No. 1, pp. 25-38
Cathedrals and doghouses
This paper sets up an imaginary dialogue between an intrepid critical theorist and several interrogators. The dialogical form allows the author to explore the idea that all of society is a vat school, and that adult educators have a crucial intellectual role to play in the great debates of our age
The Foundations of Adult Education in Canada
Dangerous Knowledge
Women and Education
Knowledge for the People
Adult educators/students and practitioners as well as those interested in the social and intellectual history of Canada will find in this book an attempt to recover a past we can keep faith with, and an endeavour to provide a context and depth for the current discourse on the social purpose of adult education.
Vivisecting the Nightingale’
An Authentic Instrument of the Democratic Process’
Conflicting Visions, Divergent Strategies
USING WATSON THOMSON'S adult educational work with Tommy Douglas' CCF from late 1944 to early 1946 as an anchor point, this paper has several goals. First, to explicate Thomson's transformative-communitarian socialist vision and thereby confront the inadequacies of the communist-social democratic framing of the history of the Canadian left; second, to illuminate the tensions on the left at an axial moment in its history; third, to examine the spe…
Themes in African Traditional Belief and Ritual
The author presents a critical survey of the literature, both in terms of field reports and theoretical constructs, which is relevant to African Traditional Religion in the areas of belief in divinity and the nature of divinity (one or many?), the significance of ancestors, and witchcraft and sorcery. Both the great variety of particular beliefs and certain underlying regularities are highlighted
The Holy Aruosa
Vivisecting the Nightingale’
Women and Education
The educator needs to be educated
This essay examines one of the most intractable pedagogical problems of the Marxian revolutionary tradition: who will educate the educator and how ought the learning process to proceed. The solutions of Marx, Lenin and Habermas are critically examined towards the clarification of the emancipatory learning process. This learning process has three components: enlightenment, empowerment and emancipatory collective action. Lessons are drawn for our o…
Dangerous Knowledge
The Holy Aruosa
Themes in African Traditional Belief and Ritual
The author presents a critical survey of the literature, both in terms of field reports and theoretical constructs, which is relevant to African Traditional Religion in the areas of belief in divinity and the nature of divinity (one or many?), the significance of ancestors, and witchcraft and sorcery. Both the great variety of particular beliefs and certain underlying regularities are highlighted
An Authentic Instrument of the Democratic Process’
Conflicting Visions, Divergent Strategies
USING WATSON THOMSON'S adult educational work with Tommy Douglas' CCF from late 1944 to early 1946 as an anchor point, this paper has several goals. First, to explicate Thomson's transformative-communitarian socialist vision and thereby confront the inadequacies of the communist-social democratic framing of the history of the Canadian left; second, to illuminate the tensions on the left at an axial moment in its history; third, to examine the spe…
Knowledge for the People
Adult educators/students and practitioners as well as those interested in the social and intellectual history of Canada will find in this book an attempt to recover a past we can keep faith with, and an endeavour to provide a context and depth for the current discourse on the social purpose of adult education.
Vivisecting the Nightingale’
Women and Education
Dangerous Knowledge
The Foundations of Adult Education in Canada
Cathedrals and doghouses
This paper sets up an imaginary dialogue between an intrepid critical theorist and several interrogators. The dialogical form allows the author to explore the idea that all of society is a vat school, and that adult educators have a crucial intellectual role to play in the great debates of our age
Volunteerism as the seedbed of democracy
(1997). Volunteerism as the seedbed of democracy: the educational thought and practice of Guy Henson of Nova Scotia. Studies in the Education of Adults: Vol. 29, No. 1, pp. 25-38
The educator needs to be educated
This essay examines one of the most intractable pedagogical problems of the Marxian revolutionary tradition: who will educate the educator and how ought the learning process to proceed. The solutions of Marx, Lenin and Habermas are critically examined towards the clarification of the emancipatory learning process. This learning process has three components: enlightenment, empowerment and emancipatory collective action. Lessons are drawn for our o…
Sociology (11 works) · Political science (8 works) · Pedagogy (7 works) · Law (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Adult education (3 works) · Artificial Intelligence (3 works) · Canadian Identity and History (3 works)