The article argues that, historically, universities have served a select few individuals as part of modernist not transformative agenda. This highly selective process guarantees students good life. The article argues that university education helps to redress colonial inequities through creating opportunities for graduate employability. However,…

This article argues that as adult educators we should not be outside the remit of our own theorising. It begins with an earlier effort to construct an ethical grammar to audit the probity of working to change others through adult education. This is situated in terms of contemporary debates about the possibility of truth and certainty in…

The following suggestions can make employee empowerment work: (1) do the basics first; (2) learn to do things flawlessly; (3) add new tasks only as old ones are mastered; (4) make new tasks work as flawlessly as the basics; and (5) repeat, ad infinitum. (Author/JOW)

A Campus of Learners" is a program in a public-housing project in South Bend, Indiana that aims to get residents off welfare and into the labor market. "Core" empowerment through positive self-concept and persistence is a key feature. (JOW)

The author states that the movement to increase discipline and detail in post-Freirean adult education may ultimately reduce it to reproducing the status quo. He argues that empowerment and power are opposing concepts and that adult educators must oppose the systemizing of adult education if they hope to effect social change. (CH)

The growing interest in adult education and mental health work is an opportunity to return to adult education's roots in social purpose education and critical pedagogy. Although such work is often thought of as recreational or therapeutic, recasting it in terms of teaching and learning and empowerment reveals its educational dimensions. (SK)

The author discusses the restraint of liberty. He notes that whereas the underlying importance given to liberty within a society's scheme of values does vary over time, it is pivotal reflection in moral, social, and political theory to ask whether this variation may be legitimated. (CT)

Education may be viewed as at threat to the prevailing power structure although it is essential to the structure's reproduction and development. Reflective learning is essential to the reproduction of existing socioeconomic relations, yet at the same time it represents a potential catalyst for radical change. (SK)

Empowerment through nonformal education helps women organize for change to meet practical and strategic needs. Stages of empowerment include awareness of the problem, ownership, interaction, personal action, and collective action. Each stage has cognitive, psychological, economic, and political dimensions. (SK)

Winshare is a gain-sharing system created to save a company. The program is based on the assumption that line workers know best how to do and improve their jobs. Employees are encouraged to suggest how to improve processes, reduce waste, or make their jobs easier. Employee teams are given the power and budget to implement changes. (JOW)

This article reviews some problems and concerns of older Americans and specific considerations facing community education if it is to be a feasible delivery system for providing educational opportunities for older adults. (JOW)

Passive learners rarely play a role in their own education, but follow whatever their teachers decide is best for them. Active learners are self-motivated, independent people who take responsibility for themselves. (JOW)

Key challenges are (1) using forecasting and prediction; (2) inventing possible futures; (3) matching futuring techniques to different populations; (4) using a holistic approach; and (5) serving as a futures role model. (JOW)

Three case examples in health education and one in literacy illustrate the process of participatory materials development based on Freire's principles. Materials that reflect the people and language of the community can provide a powerful model. (SK)

Although adult education is committed to democratic values, its knowledge base reproduces the structures and values of larger academic culture, which excludes many. Although the field speaks of empowerment for others, it has yet to realize such empowerment for itself. (Author/SK)