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. 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.