Researching and Transforming Adult Learning and Communities / edited by Rob Evans, Ewa Kurantowicz, Emilio Lucio-Villegas.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Evans, Rob, 1953- Editor.

Kurantowicz, Ewa, Editor.

Lucio-Villegas, Emilio, Editor.

Series:

Research on the Education and Learning of Adults

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education.

Local Subjects:

Education.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (196 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2016.

Place of Publication:

Brill 2016

Rotterdam : SensePublishers : Imprint: SensePublishers, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Can adult education and learning be understood without reference to community and people’s daily lives? The response to be found in the chapters of this volume say emphatically no, they cannot. Adult learning can be best understood if we look at the social life of people in communities, and this book is an attempt to recover this view. The chapters of this volume reflect ongoing research in the field of adult education and learning in and with communities. At the same time the work of the authors presented here offers a very vital reflection of the work of the ESREA research network Between Local and Global – Adult Learning and Communities. The chapters showcase the broad range of professional practice, the variety in both methodology and theoretical background, as well as the impressive scope of field research experience the authors bring to bear in their papers. The first section provides the broad view of research into adult learning and community development emphasising how social movements are at the heart of local and global change and that they are critically important sources of power. The second section focuses in on the practice of educators/mediators working in local and regional contexts in which the tensions of the wider policy and discourse environment impact on adult learners. The third section privileges the view at the close level of research inside local communities in the field. International researchers and practitioners, particularlyyoung researchers, who are active in adult learning and in local/global communities will be interested in this book. The emphasis of the chapters is on participatory and emancipatory social research. Empowerment of women in rural communities, involvement of communities in social and environmental movements, power-sharing in community research projects and the exposure of hegemonic, globalising forces at work in ethnic communities are among the themes developed in this volume.

Contents:

The European Society for Research on the Education of Adults (ESREA)

Introduction

Section I: The Bigger Picture

Towards a Knowledge Democracy Movement

A Tramp Shining: The Popular (Community) Educator in the Age of Lifelong Learning

Symbolic Closing of Local Community and Reflexivity

The Results of Local Community Projects: Political and Research Contexts

Section II: Adult Learning and Communities

Learning Citizenship in the Community: Young Adults, Participation and Democracy

Adult Literacy and Empowerment: Learning for Freedom

Social Capital, Adult Learning and Equality

“Why Choose One Hand Over the Other When We Can Use the Best of Two?”: Adult Educators’ Perspectives on Adult Education

Developing Minority Communities against the Background of the Necessary Dream of Returning to the Homeland

Adult Literacy Participants in Turkey

Section III: Learning in Social Movements and Social Change

The Involvement of Women in Training: A Step Towards an Emancipatory Community Development Process

Researching and Sharing Power with a Learning Community

Learning and Local Change in Social Movements in Chiapas, Mexico

Social Movements and Adult Learning: A Story of the Women in the Environmental Social Movement in Turkey.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9789463003582

9463003584

OCLC:

929440019