FROM HOUSEWIVES TO ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVISTS

The study was conducted in a community-based
organization, Green Future, in a city in Korea, in
which the housewives have guided and taught the
natural environment to the residents. The study
intended to contribute to the understanding of
active housewives learning in a community-based
organization. The housewives have moved from the
periphery toward full participation in the practice.
They adopted the activity as their profession as
well as learned the knowledge and skills. They have
been transformed into the practitioners to keep the
natural environment within the community, that is,
the agents to facilitate community development in
terms of use value, not of exchange value. Their
activities have continuously been reconstructed
through the emergence and settlement of the
contradictions within and between the elements of
activity as well as the interaction with neighboring
activities. Their expansive learning was the
continuous reconstruction and production of new
knowledge and activity in the community depending on
the housewives standpoint.

Autorentext
A Korea National Assemblyman's educational policy adviser; Korea National Institute for Lifelong Education, Research Fellow; The Pennsylvania State University, Ph.D. in Adult Education; Seoul National University, Master's in Education and Bachelor of Arts

Klappentext
The study was conducted in a community-based organization, Green Future, in a city in Korea, in which the housewives have guided and taught the natural environment to the residents. The study intended to contribute to the understanding of active housewives' learning in a community-based organization. The housewives have moved from the periphery toward full participation in the practice. They adopted the activity as their profession as well as learned the knowledge and skills. They have been transformed into the practitioners to keep the natural environment within the community, that is, the agents to facilitate community development in terms of use value, not of exchange value. Their activities have continuously been reconstructed through the emergence and settlement of the contradictions within and between the elements of activity as well as the interaction with neighboring activities. Their expansive learning was the continuous reconstruction and production of new knowledge and activity in the community depending on the housewives' standpoint.