Researching and Transforming Adult Learning and Communities: The Local/Global Context / ESREA Beneficiary, Rob Evans, Ewa Kurantowicz, Emilio Lucio-Villegas.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material / Rob Evans , Ewa Kurantowicz and Emilio Lucio-Villegas -- Introduction / Rob Evans , Ewa Kurantowicz and Emilio Lucio-Villegas -- Towards a Knowledge Democracy Movement / Budd L. Hall -- A Tramp Shining / Emilio Lucio-Villegas and António Fragoso -- Symbolic Closing of Local Community and Reflexivity / Ligus Rozalia -- The Results of Local Community Projects / Anna Bilon and Ewa Kurantowicz -- Learning Citizenship in the Community / Pyollim Hong and Jim Crowther -- Adult Literacy and Empowerment / Chris Parson -- Social Capital, Adult Learning and Equality / Nizińska Adrianna -- "Why Choose One Hand Over the Other When We Can Use the Best of Two?" / Isabel Gomes and Alcides A. Monteiro -- Developing Minority Communities against the Background of the Necessary Dream of Returning to the Homeland / Paul de Roo -- Adult Literacy Participants in Turkey / Ünlühisarcıklı Özlem -- The Involvement of Women in Training / Fragoso António and Ollagnier Edmée -- Researching and Sharing Power with a Learning Community / Tett Lyn -- Adult Education for Social Transformation in North Eastern Algarve / Joaquim do Arco -- Learning and Local Change in Social Movements in Chiapas, Mexico / Angela Pilch Ortega -- Social Movements and Adult Learning / Onur Seçkin.

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FREELY AVAILABLE ONLINE AS OPEN ACCESS BOOK! 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, particularly young 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.