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Elisabeth Lang – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2023
The idea of one shared past, can develop identity-building potential. Nevertheless, there are diverse memory practices in plural societies and they are an expression of shared, divided, and conflicting memories. The negotiations of (diverse) past(s) and memories and, consequently, related belonging(s) to so-called 'remembrance communities' take…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Political Science, History, Memory
Nordvall, Henrik; Pastuhov, Annika – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2020
Political parties are essential for the functioning of parliamentary democracy, yet parties have not received much attention in contemporary research on popular education. The aim of this article is to analyse the contemporary role of party-political education as a form of popular education in two labour movement parties in Sweden. The study is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Popular Education, Politics, Politics of Education
Munir, Laine – Journal of Political Science Education, 2023
This teaching note outlines an innovative simulation game realized in response to post-pandemic experiential learning needs. The game introduces a fictional African country experiencing a series of political and financial shocks. Students are assigned membership in social groups and must implement the national policies that would improve outcomes…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Instructional Innovation, Political Science, Experiential Learning
Aedo, María Paz; Peredo, Santiago; Schaeffer, Colombina – Environmental Education Research, 2019
Adult education in political ecology entails critically and constructively observing the interactions among the actors involved in socioecological conflicts at global and local scales. This definition invites transcending environmental education and education for sustainability's frontiers, examining the ontology, or the 'place', from where actors…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Politics of Education, Ecology, Transformative Learning
Rasmussen, Palle; Larson, Anne; Cort, Pia – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2019
Denmark has a strong and versatile tradition of adult education. Over a long historical period, adult education for public enlightenment and leisure, for continuing study and for vocational and professional competence have been developed, been made part of state policy and been used by citizens. But in recent years the public and political…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Vocational Education, Educational History, Political Attitudes
Duffy, Maura – Journal of Education Policy, 2015
The "Bolivarian Revolution" in Venezuela is conceptualised as a pedagogical project that aims to develop "twenty-first century Socialism" through state-grassroots collaboration in the reorganisation of political space in order to develop participatory, democratic institutions and processes. The cornerstones of this project to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Democracy, Social Change, Social Systems
Endresen, Kristin – Studies in the Education of Adults, 2013
In the past, non-formal education in South Africa was committed to supporting the Mass Democratic Movement (MDM) in opposition to apartheid. Such non-formal political education was concerned with education for democracy. Post 1994, South African adult education policy has exclusively concentrated on vocational training, shifting the focus away…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Popular Education, Nonformal Education, Democracy
Manoff, Itamar; Ruitenberg, Claudia W. – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2023
How can Levinas's work help language educators respond ethically to encounters with students? This paper considers this question in the context of adult immigrants learning an additional language, and is interested specifically in the existential aspects of language learning. How does the experience of "coming into being" in a new…
Descriptors: Intercultural Communication, Ethics, Teacher Student Relationship, Educational Philosophy
Hoggan-Kloubert, Tetyana; Hoggan, Chad – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2023
Contemporary society is experiencing an epistemic crisis, evidenced by such "post-truth" phenomena as "alternative facts." Traditional notions related to knowledge and Truth have been under continual, partly justifiable, attack under the eclectic banner of postmodernism, and alternative epistemic foundations (essential for…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Abstract Reasoning, Personal Autonomy, Cultural Pluralism
Mikulec, Borut – Studies in the Education of Adults, 2018
The European Union (EU) has significantly influenced the formation of European adult education policy in the last decade. By raising the importance and visibility of adult education, the EU has become an influential actor in the norm and standard setting for adult education and lifelong learning. However, as previous research has shown, the EU…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Education, Educational Policy, Policy Formation
Choudry, Aziz; Rochat, Désirée – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2015
Working and writing together as supervisor and graduate student in a Canadian university, the authors bring their community/activist/adult education learning backgrounds into dialogue--and tension--with doctoral studies by reflecting on their personal learning paths and thinking about what this means for teaching and learning in academic contexts.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Graduate Study, Doctoral Programs, Graduate Students
Antunes, Fátima – Studies in Continuing Education, 2020
The paper offers new insights into the Europeanisation of adult education, as an area of intervention and a component of the European education policy and sector, by tracing routes and processes that underpinned this pathway. The analysis provides some original findings, by pointing to four moments (thematisation; lifelong learning dimension;…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Education, Educational Policy, Adult Learning
Ellis, Viv; Mansell, Warwick; Steadman, Sarah – Journal of Education Policy, 2021
This article identifies new arrangements between the state and non-state actors in the public sector, one that extends current understandings of education privatisation, the transformation of public services 'by substitution' and, specifically theories of the 'shadow state'. Drawing on data from the Political Economy of Teacher Education (PETE)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Faculty Development, Teacher Education, Economic Factors
Paulos, Catarina – International Journal for Research in Vocational Education and Training, 2015
This article explores the role of the European Union in defining an adult education policy and the way European countries appropriate those guidelines and implement them in their realities. These policies have been widening and diversifying adult education, creating the necessity of qualifying educational professionals. With the implementation of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Education, Adult Educators, Teacher Qualifications
Selvaraj, Shivaani Aruna – ProQuest LLC, 2016
The purpose of this institutional ethnography was to explicate the social relations of broadband adoption through the public programs implemented by the Media Mobilizing Project (MMP) between 2009 and 2013, when they operated for the first time in alignment with federal regulations that orchestrated the practice of the Broadband Technology…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Community Education, Adult Education, Educational Technology