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Isadora Duncan (1927/1996) famously said “What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print” (p. 60). Taking my cue from Isadora, I begin this chapter by dancing around barefoot with two very basic questions: what are the issues involved with modeling a social education philosophy around genuine communal experiences? And can communal experiences and the concepts of social education ever exist in a vacuum as two distinct pedagogical entities?
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Marsh, S. (2011). Experiencing Social Education. In: White, C. (eds) Journeys in Social Education. SensePublishers. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-358-7_1
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