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Constructing solidarities at work: Relationality and the methods of emancipatory education
journal contribution
posted on 2022-02-22, 12:15 authored by Elizabeth CottonTaking as its starting point the decline of ideological and class identifications in the United Kingdom, this article presents the case for reviving a model of emancipatory education to develop solidaristic relationships at work. The central argument of this article is that emancipatory education methods offer useful tools to build relationality that can act as a basis for mobilising solidarity in the UK context. In order to analyse the psychological and political impact of emancipatory education methods, this article explores the conceptual and methodological parallels between emancipatory education and psychoanalysis, namely, their capacities to build relationality between people through consciousness raising and collective problem solving using dialogic methods. This article goes on to argue that in the absence of class identity or shared ideology, emancipatory education practices offer realistic opportunities for working people to formulate conceptions of common interests and build solidaristic relationships sufficient to mobilise collective organisation and action.
History
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Capital & ClassPublisher
SageVersion
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
Citation
Cotton, E. (2018) 'Constructing solidarities at work: Relationality and the methods of emancipatory education', Capital & Class, 42(2), pp.315-331Print ISSN
0309-8168Electronic ISSN
2041-0980Cardiff Met Affiliation
- Cardiff School of Management
Cardiff Met Authors
Elizabeth CottonCardiff Met Research Centre/Group
- Welsh Centre for Business and Management Research
Copyright Holder
- © The Publisher
Language
- en