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Acuña Collado, Violeta; Rueda, María Alicia; Holst, John D. – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2021
This article draws together the diversity of practices and experiences presented in the previous articles. We identify the challenges and opportunities facing adult educators in Latin America and the Caribbean in a context of growing social movements and discuss the potential relevance of these practices and experiences for US adult educators.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Education, Adult Educators, Social Action
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Gerónimo-López, Kamil; Ramos Concha, Gabriel; Holst, John D. – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2021
This article introduces the reader to the nature of social movement-based adult education practices in Latin America and the Caribbean by reviewing major social movements in the region from 2010 to 2020.
Descriptors: Adult Education, Social Action, Foreign Countries, Geographic Regions
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Holst, John D. – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2021
This article presents the results of a descriptive case study of the Union School of the Chilean nongovernmental organization (NGO) Alejandro Lipschutz Institute of Science (ICAL-Spanish acronym). The study contributes to the field of adult education by providing a contemporary example of what Gramscian pedagogy can look like. Theoretically, this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Neoliberalism, Adult Education, Working Class
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Holst, John D. – Studies in the Education of Adults, 2011
This article has three primary goals centring on a re-examination of the research frameworks we use for understanding the politics of social movements. First, I detail the ideological and methodological deficiencies of the old social movement/new social movement framework. Second, I highlight the positive contributions of research that favoured or…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Adult Education, Politics, Ideology