1st Edition
Lived Experience, Lifelong Learning, Community Activism and Social Change
Introduction: Lived experience, lifelong learning, community activism and social change
Sharon Clancy and Iain Jones
Section 1: Critical pedagogy and voice
1. Critical education in the Irish repeal movement
Camilla Fitzsimons
2. Pedagogies of hope and drug-related deaths in Scotland
John Player
3. The power of narrative storytelling: How podcasts as an arts-based practice enhance solidarity and social activism in adult education
Amea Wilbur, Zahida Rahemtulla, Emily Amburgey, Shanga Karim, Diary Khalid Marif, Camille McMillan Rambharat and Mohammed Alsaleh
4.“We are a group of excellent women” – Online activist learning with a group of migrant women during COVID-19
Rebekka Mirjam Hölzle
5. Later life learning and the demands of activism: the case of Kilburn Older Voices Exchange
John Miles
Section 2: Power, place and voice
6. Emancipatory interests of multiple literacies for activism and community transformation
Suresh Gautam
7. ‘Eye-opening’: Case study of a documentary film series in a carceral setting
Lindsay McVicar and Carole Roy
8. ‘We are the soil’ to a movement with ‘peasants in the centre:’ The grassroots-social movement learning nexus in Roșia Montană, Romania
Taylor Witiw
9. The Great Escape! A woman’s reflection on collective kindness and new power models written during the pandemic
Sally Bonnie
10. Celebrating resources of hope: The story and place of a research circle
Sharon Clancy and Iain Jones
Afterword: Resources for a journey of hope
Sharon Clancy and Iain Jones
Biography
Sharon Clancy is Assistant Professor in education at the University of Nottingham, UK. She co-convenes, with Iain Jones, the Research Circle on Fostering Democracy, Debate and Dialogue. Sharon is Vice-Chair of the Raymond Williams Foundation and a commissioner on the Centenary Commission, Communications Officer for SCUTREA and co-editor of Studies in the Education of Adults.
Iain Jones is Senior Lecturer in Education, Yr Athrofa: Centre for Education, University of Wales Trinity St David, UK, where he teaches and supervises students on EdD programmes. Iain is also co-convenor of the research circle on Fostering Democracy, Debate and Dialogue with Dr Sharon Clancy.
