Topic: How should the professional practice of adult education respond to globalisation and the social movements to which it gives rise?
Task: Write a paper that argues for the particular position you would take in a discussion of the relationship between globalisation, social movements and adult learning. Feel free to focus in on one particular social movement, or on a selection of movements, as provided in the Module Three readings. Try to locate your own views in relation to those of at least three of the authors whose work you have studied in Modules Two and Four.
You may find one or more of the following quotations a useful starting point or prompt:
Harnessing the capacities of working class learning networks could be seen as an important step towards the reinvigoration of the labour movement and its program for progressive social change and economic democracy. (Sawchuck 2003, p.228)
My commitment to engaged pedagogy is an expression of political activism. Given that our educational institutions are deeply invested in a banking system, teachers are more rewarded when they do not teach against the grain. The choice to work against the grain, to challenge the status quo, often has negative consequences. (Hooks, 1994, p.203)
It was by travelling all over the world, it was by travelling through Asia, through Australia and New Zealand, and through the islands of the South Pacific, it was by travelling through the whole of Latin America, the Caribbean, North America and Europe – it was by passing through all these different parts of the world as an exile that I came to understand my own country better. (Paulo Freire, cited in Giroux 1993, p. 182)
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