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Perry, J. Adam – Studies in the Education of Adults, 2021
This article examines how performance-oriented arts practice with members of socially marginalised communities can be harnessed as a mode of grassroots civic participation, one that can transgress the expected norms of public communication that render some stories and speakers legitimate, and some not. The article will offer an analysis of a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Housing, Urban Renewal, Disadvantaged
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McLean, Scott – Studies in the Education of Adults, 2017
Adult education was an integral component of the colonisation of the Canadian Arctic. Between the 1960s and the 1990s, educational programmes were explicitly developed in order to shape Inuit adults in particular ways: from teaching them how to live in permanent houses, to teaching them how to work as administrators and tradespeople. Inuit did not…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Education, Adult Educators, Eskimos
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English, Leona M. – Studies in the Education of Adults, 2005
The article explores the relationships of feminist organisers with government policy makers and within their own organisations. Based on a qualitative study of eight directors and eight board members of grassroots feminist organisations, this paper examines how the funder (State) and the women (executive directors and board members) interact and…
Descriptors: Public Policy, Feminism, Accountability, Organizations (Groups)
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Thomson, Alistair – Studies in the Education of Adults, 1993
Reflects on themes of two North American adult education conferences: political economy of adult education, social construction of adult education knowledge, community-based adult education, and links among heritage, memory, and adult education. (SK)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Educators, Community Education, Conferences