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Book SynopsisWhat responses is adult education providing to the great global problems: climate change and the environment, populism and racism, gender inequality, social and economic inequality? The ESREA Research Network between Local and Global – Adult Learning and Communities and the authors collected here argue for socially engaged community-based research which promotes critical democracy and popular education and drives powerful research methodologies: participatory research, feminist research, ecological research activism, posthumanist research, and more. The first part of the book looks back and forwards to the contribution to adult learning and community development played by participatory research in the making and remaking of community and society. In the second part, the focus shifts to pedagogies of possibility and change, knowledge creation and the transformation of pedagogies of inclusion. The third part, on activism and change, turns its attention to the motivations for activism and their individual and collective forms of expression. The final part considers re-making and 'doing' society and community, in particular during the COVID-19 pandemic. For researchers interested in participatory and emancipatory social research, gender and biography research, or community-university research partnerships, Remaking Communities and Adult Learning presents adult learning as a site of resistance for sustainable and creative andragogic practice.
Table of ContentsThe European Society for Research on the Education of Adults (ESREA) Acknowledgements List of Figures List of Acronyms Notes on Contributors Introduction: Remaking Communities and Adult Learning Rob Evans, Ewa Kurantowicz and Emilio Lucio-Villegas PART 1: Popular Education Looking Back, Looking Forward 1 Adult Learning and Mainstream Education Discourse: Revisiting Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed Licínio C. Lima 2 Resisting Mainstream Lifelong Learning: The Contributions of Popular Education and Participatory Research Emilio Lucio-Villegas 3 Lifelong Education in Diverse Communities: Reading Ettore Gelpi and Leonardo Zanier on Complex Environments ‘in Transition’ Davide Zoletto 4 Is Active Citizenship a Forgotten Idea in Europe? Educational Interventions in Five European Countries Monika Noworolnik-Mastalska PART 2: Knowledge Democracy, New Pedagogies, Creative Inclusion 5 Co-Constructing Knowledge and Communities: Community-University Research Partnerships and Participatory Research Training Walter Lepore, Yashvi Sharma, Budd L. Hall and Rajesh Tandon 6 Women’s and Gender Museums: Feminist Pedagogies for Illumination, Imagination, Provocation, and Collaboration Darlene E. Clover 7 Living and Learning with Dementia: Implications for Re-Making Community Life Jocey Quinn PART 3: Social Learning and Activism for Change 8 Regaining Lost Community Knowledge: The Impact of Individual and Collective Biographical Work Rozalia Ligus 9 Social Learning and Building Solidarity: Learning in the Context of a Natural Disaster Angela Pilch Ortega 10 The ‘Pulsating Activism’ of Polish Activists: Oscillation Between the Mainstream and the Margins Anna Bilon-Piórko 11 Learning (for) Civil Disobedience in Poland: Extinction Rebellion as a New Form of Social Movement Marta Gontarska, Paweł Rudnicki and Piotr Zańko PART 4: Re-Making Community 12 Changes in Community Life Marjorie Mayo 13 LLearning to Make (and Remake) Society: Social Mediation and Mediators’ Learning Biographies Rob Evans 14 Social Pedagogy and Community Networks: Global Coexistence in Pandemic Times José Antonio Caride, Rita Gradaílle and Laura Varela 15 Communities and Adult Learning in the Making and Remade Rob Evans, Ewa Kurantowicz and Emilio Lucio-Villegas Index
