Community Sustainability and Adult Education: Learning To Build Civil Capital and Resist Corporate Globalisation.

Sumner, Jennifer

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Publication Date: 2000

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Community Sustainability and Adult Education: Learning To Build Civil Capital and Resist Corporate Globalisation.

Sumner, Jennifer

Australian Journal of Adult Learning, v40 n2 p53-65 Jul 2000

Adult educators can support communities in search of sustainability by helping them resist globalization and build civil capital (community action that blocks or challenges unsustainable activities). Grounded in life values, civil capital can form the basis of a civil society. (SK)

Descriptors: Adult Education, Citizen Participation, Community Development, Role of Education, Sustainable Development

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Language: English

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