Michael Newman (born 1939) is an Australian adult educator and author. His most recent book is Teaching Defiance: Stories and Strategies for Activist Educators, published in 2006 by Jossey Bass, San Francisco. The by-line of the book reads ?a book written in wartime?. Newman explains in a preamble that he started writing the book when the USA, the UK and Australia were planning to invade Iraq, and that he finished it while foreign forces were still engaged in occupation and combat there. Newman has written six books, and all in one way or another have examined teaching and learning in contexts of community, social and political action. Information about all his books can be found on his website[LINK: http://www.michaelnewman.info] MichaelNewman.info. Three can be downloaded free of charge. Two of Newman's books have won the Cyril Houle Award for Outstanding Literature in Adult Education, award

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