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Scott McLean; Laura Montes de Oca Barrera – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2024
This article explores informal adult education for change in Mexico through the conceptual lens of social movement learning and public pedagogy. It adopts a multiple case design featuring two advocacy networks, two civil society organisations, and two self-help authors. It analyses how they position themselves as change agents addressing issues of…
Descriptors: Informal Education, Adult Education, Social Change, Advocacy
Aarsand, Liselott; Jarvis, Christine – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2023
In many countries the COVID-19 pandemic has been managed through lockdowns including school closures which require parents/guardians to take responsibility for overseeing children's education. Lockdowns also left parents supervising more of their children's informal time. Parenting has always been the subject of adult education, both formal and…
Descriptors: Parent Education, COVID-19, Pandemics, Time Management
Lange, Elizabeth; Young, Susan – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2019
Gender-based violence is a staggering but normalized global phenomenon, illustrated by the global reach of the #MeToo movement. Gender-based violence and the impacts of trauma enter learning spaces daily, acknowledged or not. Adult learners often respond to learning about gender relations with avoidance, denial, fear, defensiveness and…
Descriptors: Gender Bias, Violence, Trauma, Student Experience
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Crowther, Jim – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2000
Dominant discourse about participation in adult education assumes that (1) participation is good; (2) participation equates with formal learning; (3) learners are individuals, abstracted from their social context; and (4) there are barriers to participation, not resistance. These assumptions obscure issues about informal learning, collective…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Community Education, Discourse Analysis, Educational Policy