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Direct linkNiall Dempsey – Studies in the Education of Adults, 2023
I have often felt ashamed of the disabled aspect of my masculine identity. Reflexive, autoethnographical practices help me to ask why? These practices facilitate a reorientation of my frames of reference, from shame to acceptance, by examining attitudes which coalesce around what has been described as the dilemma of disabled masculinity. This…
Descriptors: Masculinity, Autobiographies, Ethnography, Adult Education
Fitzsimons, Camilla – Studies in the Education of Adults, 2020
The article is principally written for adult educators. It models an auto-ethnographic approach situating this within a critical pedagogic orientation. As an adult educator working in the Republic of Ireland, I draw from two instances in my own life that helped me to re-think my racialised identity. By reflecting on discomforts in terms of my own…
Descriptors: Adult Educators, Whites, Power Structure, Racial Bias
Kapoor, Dip – Studies in the Education of Adults, 2011
Through a selective deployment of conceptualisations from subaltern studies, in particular the concepts of political (un-civil) society and an autonomous domain (or a people's politics that suggests the plausibility of dominance without hegemony), this article distinguishes a subaltern social movement (SSM) formation and related anti-colonial SSM…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Foreign Countries, Social Change, Political Issues
Langdon, Jonathan – Studies in the Education of Adults, 2011
Ghana has been identified as an important example of democracy in Africa, yet the story of this democratic success overlooks the crucial role social movement activism and learning have played in locally reconfiguring and deepening what democracy means. A key dimension of this overlooked-story is ongoing efforts to contest both local and global…
Descriptors: Democracy, Incidental Learning, Learning Processes, Foreign Countries
Zielinska, Malgorzata; Kowzan, Piotr; Prusinowska, Magdalena – Studies in the Education of Adults, 2011
Social movements at universities have recently flourished as a response to the Bologna Process and austerity measures at universities, but studies on learning within these movements are still scarce. Our goal is to describe one movement which started at the University of Gdansk in 2009 and aimed at democratising the university and implementing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Activism, Empowerment, Socialization
Sebrant, Ulla – Studies in the Education of Adults, 2008
In a previous ethnographic study (Sebrant, 2000) a social constructionist view of how social identity is produced among professional groups in Swedish healthcare was developed. Looking at the workplace as an important environment for identity construction suggested that these processes were conditions for learning. The purpose of this paper is to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Ethnography, Health Services, Geriatrics
