"If you can't measure it, it doesn't exist"? Popular education in the shadows of global reporting on adult learning and education. Issue 1 (2nd January 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Walters, Shirley; von Kotze, Astrid
• Is Part Of: Studies in the education of adults. Volume 51:Issue 1(2019)
• Page Start: 3
• Page End: 14
• Publication Date: 2019-01-02
• Subjects: Popular education -- solidarity -- adult learning and education -- GRALE Report -- SDGs; Adult education -- Great Britain -- Periodicals; 374.941
• DOI: 10.1080/02660830.2018.1522052
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0266-0830

Abstract

Abstract: Discourses on adult learning and education (ALE) and in particular the GRALE Report generally have limited coverage of popular education as part of its ecology. Given both the long history of popular education globally as a necessary approach towards affecting transformation and the socio-economic-ecological transformations that are needed, we identify the challenge of incorporating the radical approach of popular education more explicitly into ALE discourses. We proffer suggestions toward this end.