Symbolic Closing of Local Community and Reflexivity

This chapter focuses on research done over a total period of six years, initially in three communities, and subsequently in one further local community in Poland, in which I analysed the process of the closing of symbolic spaces. My attention has been dir

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Research on the Education and Learning of Adults VOLUME 5 Series Editors (On behalf of the European Society for Research on the Education of Adults) Emilio Lucio-Villegas (University of Seville, Spain) Barbara Merrill (University of Warwick, United Kingdom) Marcella Milana (Aarhus University, Denmark) Henning Salling Olesen (Roskilde University, Denmark) Scope ‘Research on the Education and Learning of Adults’ aims at providing an in-depth insight on the diversity of current research on adult education in diverse teaching/ learning contexts in both geographical and cultural terms in Europe. Research on adult education has been characterised by different intellectual traditions, theoretical and methodological approaches and which are still alive today in Europe from the north to the south and from the west to the east. This book series is edited by the European Society for Research on the Education of Adults (ESREA). The content of the series reflects the wide range of research activities undertaken by ESREA’s members and networks such as: access, learning careers and identities; active citizenship; the professional development of adult educators; working life; the history of adult education; gender; local development and adult learning; ethnicity; older learners; adult education policies and biographical research. This book series will appeal to an international audience as it engages with current and relevant empirical research, a range of theoretical perspectives and knowledge thus stimulating debate, discussion and knowledge dissemination in the field in a democratic and heterogeneous way. Editorial Advisory Board Michal Bron Jr. (Södertörn University College, Sweden) Anja Heikkinen (University of Tampere, Finland) Françoise F. Laot (University Paris-Descartes, France) Linda Morrice (University of Sussex, United Kingdom) Joanna Ostrouch-Kamińska (University of Warmia and Mazury, Poland) Angela Pilch Ortega (Graz University, Austria) Andreas Wallo (Linköping University, Sweden) Georgios Zarifis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece)

Researching and Transforming Adult Learning and Communities The Local/Global Context

Edited by Rob Evans University of Magdeburg, Germany Ewa Kurantowicz University of Lower Silesia, Wroclaw, Poland and Emilio Lucio-Villegas University of Seville, Spain

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