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Community Work and Adult Education in Staveley, North-East Derbyshire, 1969-1972
Community Work and Adult Education in Staveley, North-East Derbyshire celebrates and evaluates the collaboration of Colin Kirkwood, Bob Thomas and the people of Staveley in the early 1970s, drawing on letters, interviews, poems, issues of the local newspaper Staveley Now and reports and articles written at the time.
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The persons in relation perspective : in counselling, psychotherapy and community adult learning
People are constituted by their relationships, past and present, inner and outer, conscious and unconscious. People are agents who experience, know and act on the world. At the heart of your agency is your self: positive, puzzling, and problematic. Colin Kirkwood explores these and other ideas of John Macmurray, Ian Suttie, Ronald Fairbairn, John D Sutherland and Paulo Freire, and shows how they apply in counselling and psychotherapy, adult education, community and society. In today's world, a set of ideas, attitudes and practices has taken hold, which emphasise the individual, self-centredness, pleasure-seeking, consumption, success and the accumulation of wealth and power. They are deeply harmful and need to be tackled. Colin demonstrates how these ideas affect us, and how they can be taken on and defeated, in a dialogical narrative of psychotherapy with a girl suffering from severe anorexia, written by the girl herself, her psychotherapist and one of her doctors.
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The Persons in Relation Perspective
In today's world, a set of ideas, attitudes and practices has taken hold, which emphasise the individual, self-centredness, pleasure-seeking, consumption, success and the accumulation of wealth and power. They are deeply harmful and need to be tackled. Colin demonstrates how these ideas affect us, and how they can be taken on and defeated, in a dialogical narrative of psychotherapy with a girl suffering from severe anorexia, written by the girl herself, her psychotherapist and one of her doctors.
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The Persons in Relation Perspective
This paper is the first in a planned series which aims to articulate and synthesise the persons in relation perspective in counselling and psychotherapy, drawing together the contributions of the philosopher John Macmurray (1891–1976), the psychotherapist Ian Suttie (1889–1935), and the psychoanalyst Ronald Fairbairn (1889–1965). The present paper introduces the persons in relation perspective, derived from Macmurray’s work. It outlines the historical and cultural context leading to the emergence of modernism, and the response of personalism. It summarises John Macmurray’s life and philosophy, focussing on his account of knowledge, its relation to the senses and the emotions, and his view of persons, society and religion. The paper goes on to develop a hypothesis about the rise of counselling and psychotherapy in Britain, linking it to the decline of religion, the conflict between individualism and collectivism, and the re-emergence of the persons in relation perspective. It concludes by posing challenges for the personcentred and psychodynamic orientations, and for counselling and psychotherapy as a whole.
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Challenging Education, Creating Alliances
When Alex Downie invited me to contribute a retrospective piece on Paulo Freire
for this edition of The Scottish Journal of Community Work and Development, I was glad of the opportunity to reflect again on the significance of Freire’s life and work. The immediate context is, of course, his death on 2 May 1997, at the age of 75. He is no longer with us in the flesh, and in that sense his work is completed. I can think of people who will be glad he is gone, and others for whom his departure, like his earlier presence, will be a matter of indifference. A prominent British professor of education once asked me why we should pay attention to a Latin American theorist. I was so astonished that I was unable to formulate a reply.
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