Eurig Scandrett (ed) (2020) Public Sociology as Educational Practice: Challenges, Dialogues and Counter-Publics

Abstract

Public Sociology as Educational Practice frames, critically engages with and seeks
to further the theory and practice of public sociology as popularised by public
sociologist, Michael Burawoy. Public sociology is about taking sociology outside
the university, and using it to support ‘publics’ or communities to generate
knowledge about society and how it can be changed. To readers of a journal about
community education this aim will likely sound familiar; the explicit and implicit
links between arguments for public sociology and the dialogical pedagogy of Paulo
Freire are clear throughout the book.