Can the arts change the world? A group of organizers gathered in cooperative inquiry over the course of eighteen months in 2004 and 2005 to think about this question and answered yes, the arts can indeed contribute to changing the world. This article describes the insights and learning produced by a group of community activists and educators who…

This chapter examines popular culture as a site of cultural resistance. Specifically, it explores how "culture jamming," a cultural-resistance activity, can be a form of adult education. It examines adult education and learning as it intersects with both consumerism and popular culture. Focus is placed on a growing social movement of individuals…

Social movements in South Africa, often organized around class-related issues, provide rich material to illustrate how class, intertwined with other social categories, shapes organizational and educational practices.

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.

Social class has strongly influenced the development of social policies about adult education. Present policy discourses are a result of weakening working-class interests.