CR&DALL SEMINAR SERIES 2010 2011 ------------------------------------------

Darlene E. Clover and Budd L. Hall, University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
MONDAY, OCTOBER 18TH, 2010 - 2PM TILL 4PM IN ROOM 227, ST. ANDREW'S BUILDING, UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW

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Learning, Democracy and Community: Two International Studies on Engagement and Change
Presentation Learning, engagement, community, social change, citizenship, democracy, politics and power have been at the heart of the historic discourses of adult education throughout the world. The past 25 years have seen major shifts in the government funding of the education of adults towards market-oriented, vocational, professional and generally instrumental approaches. At the same time there are new discourses of engagement emerging within higher education institutions and new discursive spaces for critique, study and reflection. This presentation looks at two distinct studies being undertaken by Budd and Darlene respectively. Budd will report on a comparative and international study on Community-University Research Partnerships in the context of poverty alleviation and sustainability funded by the International Development Research Centre and the Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. Darlene will share the findings of an international study on womens nonformal and informal political education and learning in Canada and India. Biographies Darlene E. Clover currently an Associate Professor in Leadership Studies, Faculty of Education, University of Victoria, Canada, her areas of teaching and research include women and leadership, community and cultural leadership, feminist and arts-based adult education and artsinformed research. Darlene is currently working on two international research projects: Womens non-formal and informal political education and learning in Canada and India and Contemporary educational philosophies of librarians and museum educators in Canada and England. Her most recent book (with Joyce Stalker) is titled The arts and social justice: Re-crafting adult education and community cultural leadership through NIACE, UK. Budd L. Hall is currently a Visiting Fellow at Londons Institute of Education and the Director of the Office of Community-Based Research and Professor of Public Administration at the University of Victoria. Budd has been working in adult education since 1970. He has been associated with

the University of Dar es Salaam, the International Council for Adult Education, the Department of Adult Education and Community Development at the Ontario Institute of Education of the University of Toronto, the Faculty of Education and the Faculty of Human and Social Development at the University of Victoria. His academic interests have been in the areas of participatory research, learning and social movements, international and comparative approaches to adult education and the role of poetry in learning and social movements. Most recently his work has been in the development and support of higher education structures to facilitate communityuniversity research and engagement. He has been involved in the creation of Community-Based Research Canada, the Knowledge Commons Initiative and the Global Alliance for CommunityEngaged Research. Questions and discussion are encouraged as part of the Seminar. CR&DALL Seminars are free and open to all. Refreshments will be available.

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