Feminism, Adult Education and Creative Possibility: Imaginative Responses

Feminist aesthetics as adult education practices can inform responses to gendered, racial, class, and ecological injustices, showcasing the critical, creative, and provocative work of feminist educators and researchers in diverse contexts across North America and Europe.

Format: Hardback
Length: 272 pages
Publication date: 05 May 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

This book makes a compelling case that feminist aesthetics, as approaches to adult education, can provide valuable insights into our responses to gendered, racial, class, and ecological injustices. Through vivid illustrations, it showcases the critical, creative, and provocative pedagogical theorizing, research, and engagement work of feminist adult educators and researchers who operate in diverse community, institutional, and social movement contexts across North America and Europe. By delving into the intricacies, diversity, energy, and imagination of these individuals, the book captures the richness and complexity of their work in theorizing, decolonizing, facilitating, investigating, visualizing, storytelling, and creating within the realm of gender (in)justice and radical change.

The book argues that feminist aesthetics as practices of adult education can inform our responses to gendered, racial, class, and ecological injustices. It illustrates the critical, creative, and provocative pedagogical theorizing, research, and engagement work of feminist adult educators and researchers who work in diverse community, institutional, and social movement contexts across North America and Europe.

This book captures the complexity, diversity, energy, and imagination of those who theorize, decolonize, facilitate, investigate, visualize, story, and create within the politics of gender (in)justice and radical change.

The book highlights the importance of feminist aesthetics in adult education as a means to challenge and transform oppressive systems and structures. It emphasizes the need for educators and researchers to engage with the complexities of gender, race, class, and ecology and to develop pedagogical approaches that promote equity, justice, and sustainability.

Through its rich illustrations and compelling narratives, the book provides a valuable resource for educators, activists, and policymakers seeking to understand and address gendered, racial, class, and ecological injustices. It offers insights into the experiences and perspectives of feminist adult educators and researchers and encourages readers to engage in their work to create a more just and equitable world.

Weight: 556g
Dimension: 164 x 240 x 23 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781350231047