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Adult Education in Communities

Approaches From A Participatory Perspective

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Authors:
  1. Emilio Lucio-Villegas

    1. University of Seville, Spain

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  • This book is about education and people.
  • It tries to explore how the foundations of an emancipatory adult education are in the life that individuals share living in communities.

Part of the book series: International Issues in Adult Education (ADUL, volume 1)

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Claiming Adult Education

    • Emilio Lucio-Villegas
    Pages 1-24

  3. On Literacy and Participation

    • Emilio Lucio-Villegas
    Pages 25-48

  4. The Epistemology of Everyday Knowledge

    • Emilio Lucio-Villegas
    Pages 49-65

  5. Research Living Communities

    • Emilio Lucio-Villegas
    Pages 67-92

  6. Becoming Citizens through Adult Education

    • Emilio Lucio-Villegas
    Pages 93-109

  7. Southbound

    • Emilio Lucio-Villegas
    Pages 111-124

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 125-139
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About this book

Participation can be a double-edged sword in that it can be used to bind people into agendas and policies they have little control over or it can help enable them to give voice to real and significant issues. Drawing on the work of Raymond Williams, genuine participation has to be an open and democratic process which enables all to contribute to the creation of meanings. Adult education in communities can then be involved in the process of creating ‘really useful knowledge’, that is, knowledge which enables people – individuals and collectivities who experience systematic forms of oppression, domination and exploitation – to think about, analyse and act on their situation individually and severally. By drawing on contemporary accounts of emancipatory action and participatory research the author elaborates on the role of adult educators in this context. (From the Preface)
This book tries to reflect on adult education and its close relationships with communities. It is a modest attempt to maintain adult education in the scope of the community life against the growing schooling, the focus on employability, and on the labour market. In the last years it seems that adult education has become a kind of provider of diplomas, skills and competences and has forgotten its role to enlighten individuals and help them to share their community life with an abundance of richness, diversity, sadness and happiness.
Adult Education is intrinsically connected to daily life, and the life that individuals constantly edify in their interactions. If adult education is connected to daily life, one of the major tasks is to recover this feeling and to link daily life and education. I think that at present time, in a moment of intense reductionism, reality is usually presented as very plain, losing its complexity and diversity that are related to the fact that life is being lived everyday by men and women as creators and relational beings.

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Seville, Spain

    Emilio Lucio-Villegas

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Adult Education in Communities

  • Book Subtitle: Approaches From A Participatory Perspective

  • Authors: Emilio Lucio-Villegas

  • Series Title: International Issues in Adult Education

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-043-7

  • Publisher: SensePublishers Rotterdam

  • eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: SensePublishers-Rotterdam, The Netherlands 2015

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-6300-043-7Published: 25 June 2015

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 140

  • Topics: Education, general

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