Changing Ourselves, Changing the World

By Brian K. Murphy

Book Overview

This book is for all those - community workers, adult educators, social activists of every kind - who want to overcome pessimism and play a part in changing society in the direction of peace, justice... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1856497070
• ISBN13: 9781856497077
• Release Date: December 1999
• Publisher: Zed Books
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 5.5" x 0.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

When you think you are alone..

...and ready to give up to try and save the world all by yourself, this book comes along and gives you the needed encouragement and boost to keep on trying. "Transforming ourselves, transforming the world" is a book that shows how everybody can do their small share to make this world a more just, peaceful and sustainable place. Murphy asks that everybody join in an 'open conspiracy' to overcome the powerful forces of big government and big corporations. Social Action is not only a process to effect change in social conditons but also a process to transform the individual him/herself. This book empowers people to act for change. His chapters on education are especially important. Drawing on Paolo Freire, he demands a critical and conscientious awareness and sees learning as an individual, subjective, inventive and dynamic process rather than a means of perpetuating the dominant social institutions. This book is realistic, encouraging and practical. A 'must read' for anybody who wants to make a difference!