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Latina/o Parent Organizing for Educational Justice: An Ethnographic Account of Community Building and Radical Healing
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Nygreen, Kysa – Journal of Latinos and Education, 2017
This article describes a parent organizing effort with Latina/o immigrant parents in a large, high-poverty, racially and linguistically diverse urban school district. Drawing from ethnographic research and the theoretical framework of "mujerismo," it examines the relational processes of community building and radical healing that…
Descriptors: Hispanic Americans, Parents, Social Justice, Equal Education
Troubling the Discourse of Both/And: Technologies of Neoliberal Governance in Community-Based Educational Spaces
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Nygreen, Kysa – Policy Futures in Education, 2017
This article traces the work of community-based popular educators with an explicit commitment to "Freirean" popular education as they shifted from teaching in a community-based setting to an after-school program focused on standardized test-preparation. Drawing from ethnographic observation and interviews, it examines educators'…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, Governance, Social Justice, Popular Education
The Development and Recovery of Social Capital through Community-Based Adult Learning
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McIntyre, Janis – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2012
This paper explores the connection between participation in community-based adult learning (CBAL) and the development of social capital. It is based on a life-history study of participation in community-based adult learning opportunities undertaken in two local authority areas in Scotland. A life-history approach was chosen in order to ensure that…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Lifelong Learning, Foreign Countries, Biographies
Lifeline Work: Community-Based Adult Learning and Learners' Personal Progression
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Macintyre, Janis – Studies in the Education of Adults, 2012
This paper explores learner progression for participants in community-based adult learning (CBAL) provision in Scotland. It focuses on learners' perceptions of progression drawn from analysis of life history interviews carried out with ten adults who had participated in community-based adult learning. The analysis of data was undertaken in three…
Descriptors: Females, Adult Learning, Foreign Countries, Biographies
How a Personal Development Program Enhances Social Connection and Mobilises Women in the Community
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Spry, Nandila; Marchant, Teresa – Australian Journal of Adult Learning, 2014
Gender equity and the empowerment of women is a significant international issue. Successful adult education programs are vital to enhance women's situation. Lessons learned from a personal development program provided for thousands of women are analysed. The program is conducted by community service providers in Australia and internationally, with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Individual Development, Females, Empowerment
Managing Learner Contributions in the Adult ESL Classroom: A Conversation Analytic and Ethnographic Examination of Teacher Practices and Cognition
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Fagan, Drew Stephen – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Although contemporary second language learning scholars assert that teacher management of learner contributions in classroom interaction is key to promoting learning opportunities, research has yet to make explicit teachers' real-time management practices. Studies on classroom interaction have illuminated how learner contributions are elicited via…
Descriptors: Adult Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction