Remaking Communities and Adult Learning

Abstract

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Transformative learning as societal learning

“…The borders between action and learning are blurring. Social movements, environmental campaigns, feminist or diversity movements, and other grassroots social and political actions, are increasingly recognized as venues of transformative learning (Evans et al., 2022; Holst, 2018). Spaces for encounters, agoras, and civic actions have been thus analyzed as educational spaces for the creation and promotion of socially transformative knowledge (Stromquist, 2004).…”

Radical popular education today

“…Despite being more necessary than ever in the contemporary context, popular education is facing existential challenges of its own. Popular education goes against the grain of mainstream discourses of adult education and learning today (Evans et al, 2022). All too often, Evans et al (2022) argue, the emphasis has become education and skills for the labour market, at the expense of learning for emancipation and personal and social development, as developed by Paulo Freire as well as by Raymond Williams and others over the past century.…”

“…Processes of marketisation continue apace, including marketisation within Higher Education, with diminishing support for adult education, let alone popular political education or participatory action research (Crowther & Martin, 2018). These processes have been particularly marked in but by no means confined to Britain (Evans et al, 2022). All too often, the emphasis has become education and skills for the labour market, at the expense of learning for emancipation and personal and social development, as it has already been suggested.…”

“…All too often, the emphasis has become education and skills for the labour market, at the expense of learning for emancipation and personal and social development, as it has already been suggested. Nor are mainstream discourses providing adequate responses to the great problems of our time, according to Evans et al (2022), 'environmental issues, populism and the return of authoritarian practices, racism, gender inequality, xenophobia, precariousness and so on' (Evans et al, 2022, p. 1), not to forget the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic or indeed the war in Ukraine.…”

(H)old on Project – Education and Participation in the Community From the Perspective of Leaders

“…It is important to attend to the living conditions of older people and municipal social services [9], in order to create conditions for an active, dynamic and adjusted participation to the needs of the individual and the community itself. As stated by Evans, Kurantowicz and Lucio-Villegas [10], it is necessary to "remake communities and adult learning", with the vicissitudes and circumstances because this is the place and natural context in which people live. Making it a favorable environment for their development and sustainable development constitutes an educational purpose, aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals from Agenda 2030 (SDG), namely, "Goal 4.…”