Adult Education and Difference

Bonnie Slade (Editor), Peter Mayo (Editor), Thi Bogossian (Editor)

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Abstract

The world ecological system is marked by difference throughout. There is social difference with different identities, shifting and transmuting, being forged, and extra-human differences. All these have implications for intra human and human/non-human earth relations. This aspect is not always recognised and valorised. Education, though not an independent variable, still can be mobilised, together with other sources of potential transformation, to redress this situation marked by aggressions, micro and macro, inertia and indifference. It represents a number of immediate challenges for Adult Education. This compendium is intended as a useful resource in this regard. It maps out a kaleidoscope of myriad differences and suggests options for overcoming the various obstacles that stand opposed to those who seek fulfilment in the way they are discursively located. The obstacles are a dent on efforts to living in communion with the rest of the cosmos. The utopian view is that of different species living in harmony with each other. This book emphasises social/ecological justice, intersectionality and relationality as the targets for Adult Education in this relatively still new millennium.
Original languageEnglish
Place of PublicationNetherlands
PublisherBrill
Number of pages260
ISBN (Electronic)978-90-04-69262-6
ISBN (Print)978-90-04-69260-2, 978-90-04-69261-9
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 15 Feb 2024

Publication series

NameInternational Issues in Adult Education
PublisherBrill
Volume36

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