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Costa, Graça Dos Santos; Costa, Patricia Lessa Santos; Santos, Carla Liane Nascimento Dos; Mallows, David – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2021
This article presents the results of a qualitative study on the relationship between social movements and a Master's Program in youth and adult education in Bahia, Brazil. It pays particular attention to the importance of antiracism in and the decolonization of the program's curriculum.
Descriptors: Activism, Masters Programs, Adult Education, Foreign Countries
Sun, Qi; Kang, Haijun – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2019
Adult education, lifelong education, and lifelong learning have been playing critical roles in responding to contemporary, economic, political, social, and cultural challenges in many parts of the world. This article looks at the new vistas of adult and lifelong education/learning from Eastern perspectives, which highlights the state of adult and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Continuing Education, Lifelong Learning, Social Change

Flavin-McDonald, Catherine; Barrett, Molly Holme – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 1999
Interviews with the heads of the Topsfield Foundation and its Study Circles Resource Center elaborate on the use of study circles as a forum for discussion of public issues that leads to constructive social change. (SK)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Citizen Participation, Creativity, Democracy
Charaniya, Nadira K.; Walsh, Jane West – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2004
Two adult and religious educators--a Muslim and a Jew--demonstrate the impact of interreligious dialogue on personal transformation and democratic social change.
Descriptors: Social Change, Adult Learning, Religious Education, Religion
Nesbit, Tom – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2004
Given the roots of critical theory in Marxist analysis of class and economy, it is essential that critical educators not lose sight of the importance of these factors to everyday practices.
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Social Class, Economic Factors, Socioeconomic Influences