Critically Minded Shopping as a Process of Adult Learning and Civic Engagement

Autor/in	Jubas, Kaela
Titel	Critically Minded Shopping as a Process of Adult Learning and Civic Engagement
Quelle	In: New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, (2012) 135, S.61-69 (9 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1052-2891
DOI	10.1002/ace.20027
Schlagwörter	Adult Learning; Daily Living Skills; Purchasing; Relationship; Consumer Economics; Life Style; Labor Conditions; Activism; Sustainability; Social Change; Citizen Participation; Decision Making; Global Approach; Reflection; Information Seeking; Internet; Interpersonal Communication; Religious Factors; Agricultural Occupations; Place of Residence; Proximity; Conservation (Environment) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Adulte education; Adult training; Erwachsenenbildung; Alltagsfertigkeit; Beschaffungswesen; Kauf; Wechselbeziehung; Konsumökonomie; Lebensstil; Arbeitsbedingungen; Aktivismus; Politischer Protest; Nachhaltigkeit; Sozialer Wandel; 'Citizen participation; Citizens'' participation'; Bürgerbeteiligung; Decision-making; Entscheidungsfindung; Globales Denken; Informationserschließung; Interpersonale Kommunikation; Agriculture; Occupation; Landwirtschaft; Beruf; Landwirtschaftlicher Beruf; Wohnort; Lebensnähe; Conservation; Environment; Konservierung; Bewahung; Umwelt
Abstract	The author's academic interest in how shopping relates to adult learning goes back several years, to the author's Ph.D. program. Concerns are wide ranging, from social and material inequities manifest in unfair labor conditions for producers, to environmental degradation, to the tendency to favor economic viability single-mindedly over ecological sustainability. Critical shoppers might change their practices as they encounter and learn from new social movements, and they might apply what they have learned from movements while they consider their own practices. This chapter explores how shopping practices that challenge mainstream consumerism can be understood as forms of social movement learning and civic engagement, and illuminate complexities and paradoxes inherent in these processes. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10