Introduction: lived experience, lifelong learning, community activism and social change

Clancy, Sharon and Jones, Iain (2024) Introduction: lived experience, lifelong learning, community activism and social change. In: Lived experience, lifelong learning, community activism and social change. Routledge, Abingdon. ISBN 9781032715582

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Abstract

This book identifies and celebrates the learning adult educators can gain from the numerous sites of community activism, learning, and social change that are currently taking place across the globe. While the relentless push of neoliberalism has struck at the heart of adult education provision in many countries, including that provided by universities, institutions of further education, international development agencies, NGOs, vocational training centres and the local government sector, what can adult educators learn and what is being learnt when we turn to sites of community activism as a mechanism for broader social change? Drawing on empirical research, as well as stories and blogs about social change and transformation from those participating in community activist struggles, this book features diverse contributions from adult education practitioners, theorists and activist-researchers who share community activist practices from around the world and provide insight into the ways these have contributed to social change and political transformation in different spaces and communities. Each chapter and blog in this collection relate to different dimensions of community, democracy and dialogue and how this space has become one in which delimiting factors must constantly be fought. In these contributions, questions of critical pedagogy and voice, and contested notions of power, place and voice, are lived, felt and troubled in different national and international contexts.

Item Type:	Book Section
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform L Education > LC Special aspects of education > LC5201 Education extension. Adult education. Continuing education
Divisions:	Institutes and Academies > Institute of Education and Humanities > Academic Discipline: Childhood, Youth and Education
Depositing User:	Lesley Cresswell
Date Deposited:	02 Jul 2024 09:48
Last Modified:	11 Sep 2024 17:05
URI:	https://repository.uwtsd.ac.uk/id/eprint/2978

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