Between global and local
Subtitle: adult learning and development
By: António Fragoso, Ewa Kurantowicz, Emilio Lucio-Villegas (eds.)
Series: European studies in lifelong learning and adult learning research -- 7; European studies in lifelong learning and adult learning research -- 7.
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Frankfurt am Main
Language: eng
Number of pages: 243
ISBN-13: 9783631604991
Subjects: Adult learning; Social aspects; Sociology
Other titles: Adult learning and development
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Part I.; title: Introduction.; title: Introducing the global and the local: a permanent tension for the increasing complexity of human development  -- António Fragoso, Ewa Kurantowicz & Emilio Lucio-Villegas -- Part II. The; title: tensions between global and local:; title: Learning global citizenship? Exploring connections between the local and the global  -- Marjorie Mayo; title: Community development for a change: reviewing different models  -- Rennie Johnston; title: Toward emancipatory learning in a global world of academia. Biographical contexts of experiencing HE: in in search for life improvement  -- Adrianna Nizinska; title: Changing places: yearning to learn and the local/global tensions in a learning biography  -- Rob Evans -- Part III.; title: National perspectives on micro-development and adult learning.; title: Micro development: among localisation, de-localisation and re-localisation in the perspective of Polish social and political transformation  -- Ewa Kurantowicz; title: From local to global. What we learn from some experiences of local development in Andalusia (Spain)  -- Emilio Lucio-Villegas; title: Times goes by: an overview of local development in Portugal  -- António Fragoso -- Part IV.; title: Transformation, adult learning and development:; title: Is there a right to development?  -- Alberto Melo; title: Adult learning and civil society organisations: Participation for transformation?  -- Licínio Lima; title: Environmental activism and "virtual social capital": help or hindrance?  -- Akiko Hemmi, Jim Crowther & Eurig Scandrett; title: Seeking good change: discovering the transformative potential of adult education  -- Peter Taylor -- Part V.; title: Adult learning, development and equality:; title: Migration and global learning spaces  -- Rozalia Ligus; title: Elderly people in small local communities of Lower Silesia- spaces of marginalization?  -- Malgorzata Malec; title: Learning diasproic identity: The case of Greek Political Refugees in Lower Silesia  -- Marcin Golebniak -- The; title: landscape changes when we alter the perspective: envisaging new ways of looking at old problems through learning relationships with adults -- Alcides Monteiro & Isabel Gomes.