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Abstract: Out of over 40 years of experience in adult or worker education, David Greene brings us tools to develop consciousness and leadership for social change. Based on the power of our huge working class to understand this economic system and to organize, this book aims to empower educators, students and other workers with science applied to solving the serious social problems we face today.

We are confronted with the issues of low-wage, part-time and temporary jobs, inadequate housing, health care, and transportation, inequality and injustice, at the same time as the greatest concentration of wealth in human history. The disparity of wealth and control has never been greater. The only way out of this deepening crisis is through education. To change this we need understanding that is based on the clearest reflection of the real world. Unfit to Be a Slave employs the tools of theory and informed practice, to guide us to create spaces to share experience, study history’s lessons and develop consciousness.

As a collective and organized force we can transform our communities, our countries and our world. Mythologies that tell people, ‘Things don’t change,’ ‘We can’t do anything,’ or ‘It has always been this way,’ prevent poor and working class populations from taking necessary action on behalf of their own lives and families. Unfit to Be a Slave is meant to be a guide to education for social change. (From the Publisher)

Table Of Content:
Foreword (Antonia Darder)
Acknowledgements

ch. 1 Learning for Life: Adult Education as Empowerment
My Story
Popular Education
There Are No Neutrals Here
Practice and Theory
A Fresh Look
Preparation for the Job Market is Not Enough!
Listening and Relevancy
Limitations and Possibilities of the Existing System
An Auto Strike in West Virginia
A Fair Elections Committee
The Haitian Revolution
A Shout Out! Join the Field of Worker-Education!
Dialogue Questions for Teachers and Students
Questions for Chapter One

ch. 2 The Field of Adult or Worker Education
Millions of Adult Students
Types of Literacy
Students and Potential Students
Literacy Programs
Bake Sale to Support Victims of Hurricane Katrina
A Wealth of Experience
Teachers
Validating the Experience of Adult Education Students
Teachers and Organizing
Stability and Voice
Worker or Adult Education Needs to be Redefined
The Status of Adult Education Today
Questions for Chapter Two

ch. 3 Gatekeepers and Social Control
What Do Adult Students Find When They Seek Out Classes?
Two Roads: Education for Liberation or Domestication?
Domesticating Missionaries and Professionals of the State
The Professional Gatekeeper
The More GEDs the Better, Right?
Gatekeeper Myths
The Ideology of Gatekeeping
Questions for Chapter Three

ch. 4 Political Literacy
Taking the Blinders Off
Popular Education for Students and Teachers
Teacher and Student Equality
What Do We Lose When Students Are Denied Voice?
Making Noise! Workers’ Voices Are Missing
Unspoken and Unheard Voices
A Mighty River of People
Winning or Losing
Student Voices - A Force to be Reckoned With
Who Benefits from this Silence?
Suggestions for a Critical Practice of Adult Education
“Listening Good”
Recognizing Student Knowledge
Dialogue about Adult Education
From Dialogue to Actionv Student Committees
Class Content and Lesson Plans
Utilizing Public Documents and other Public Resources
Little Steps
Lesson Topics for Adult Education
Teachers Voices Too, Must be Organized
Voices for Critical Thinking and Popular Education
Questions for Chapter Four

ch. 5 The Political Economy and Adult Education
Political Economy - A Tool for Liberation
Surplus Value
Accumulation of Wealth
Polarization of Society
Polarization in the United States
The Base and the Superstructure of this Economic System
A Class Analysis of Adult or Worker Education
The UPS Story
Why a Class Analysis is Critical Today!
Understanding the Economy is Essential to Changing it!
A Broad Look at the Economy
Whom Do We Bail Out First?
Health Insurance Profiteers
Pharmaceutical Bandits
The Offensive Military
A Very Profitable Prison System
Stock Market Recovery
Financial and Economic Literacy
Examples of Lesson Content
Looking at Garment Industry Wages Around the World
Questions for Chapter Five

ch. 6 Tools for Social Change Consciousness and Social Transformation
Tools of Theory
Tools of Popular Education Practice
Political or Civic Literacy
Popular Education is Not Arranging Chairs in a Circle
Curriculum and Community
Participatory Research
Questions for Chapter Six

ch. 7 Spaces and Schools for Education for Liberation
From Robinson’s Cave to Freedom Schools
The Coal Miners of South Wales
Citizenship Schools and the Highlander Folk School
Labor Colleges
International Literacy Campaigns
Venezuela
Cuba
Nicaragua
Zimbabwe
Other Literacy Campaigns
International Action
The National Right to Literacy Campaign
The New York Bill of Rights for Adult Education
The Freedom School in Licking County
How the School Started
Education: Inside or Outside Institutions?
Questions for Chapter Seven

ch. 8 Conclusion
Stand Up For Your Rights
Start a Freedom School Where You Are!
A Recruitment Call for Worker Education and Literacy

References
Index