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GSE Profiles
 | John G. Hurst
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Language and Literacy, Society and Culture
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J
ohn Hurst is a proponent and practitioner of popular education and its associated research methodology, Participatory Research. The popular education form of adult education seeks to empower and engage ordinary people, through education, to seek democratic social change for the common good. Participatory research similarly involves people choosing the questions to be researched, and the methods to be used, and then conducting the research themselves, to better understand and use the results in assisting them to solve their problems. His interests include education and the democratic promise; education and liberation; and the theory and practice of innovative problem- or issue-focused interdisciplinary undergraduate education, e.g., conservation and resource studies, and peace and conflict studies at Berkeley. In 1999 he won the Chancellor's Award for Outstanding Service Faculty for his contributions to UC Berkeley's service-learning courses. In 1997, the Undergraduate Minor, which Hurst developed and chairs, won the campuswide Educational Initiatives Award. Among his publications are "Popular Education and the Fourth Biennial Congress on the Fate and Hope of the Earth," in Convergence(1989); "A Pedagogy for Peace," in World Encyclopedia of Peace(1986); and "Looking Holistically: A Study of the Students and Graduates of the Conservation of Natural Resources Major, UCB" (1981).
Ph.D., Ohio State University, Psychology
Areas of Specialization / Interests
Alternative Schooling
Assessment and Educational Measurement
Charter Schools
Cultural Studies
Democratic Education
Educational Equity
Ethnic Issues
Gender Equity
Higher Education Curriculum
International Education
Labor and Work Organization
Learning
Literacy
Minorities
Multicultural Education
Participatory Research
Politics of School Structure and Governance
Public Engagement
Reform Issues
Research Methods
School-University Collaboration
Schooling in the Global Economy
Service Learning and Experiential Education
Testing
Last Modified: 8/10/05
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