A Process Approach to Community-Based Education: The People’s Free University of Saskatchewan

Author: Woodhouse Howard  

Publisher: Springer Publishing Company

ISSN: 0826-4805

Source: Interchange, Vol.36, Iss.1-2, 2005-01, pp. : 121-138

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Abstract

On the basis of insights provided by Whitehead and John Cobb, I show how the People’s Free University of Saskatchewan (PFU) is a working model of free, open, community-based education that embodies several characteristics of Whitehead’s philosophy of education. Formed in opposition to the growing commercialization at the original “people’s university,” (the University of Saskatchewan) the PFU has spawned distinctive ideals of its own. The PFU reflects Whitehead’s belief in the importance of shared knowledge fostered by community-based education, the value of abstract and practical knowledge, and the power of the imagination to establish a community of learners capable of acting freely together.