Learning, Knowledge Production, and Research in Social Movement/Civil Society Milieux

• In Event: Roundtable Session 90

Session Submission Type: Roundtable Session

Abstract

The dynamics, politics and richness of learning and knowledge production in social movement, community organizing and NGO contexts are often overlooked in scholarly literature and educational research. Focusing on a number of recent or contemporary social struggles and sites, this panel explores the processes of knowledge, learning and educational dimensions in these milieus. Drawing from diverse case studies from South Africa, the Asia-Pacific region and North America, and informed by scholarship in critical adult education, feminist sociology and critical strands of social movement theory, the panel focuses on the interconnected processes of knowledge production, non-formal/informal learning, education and research work in the everyday worlds of social activism and advocacy.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Adult Literacy and Adult Education

Chair

• Aziz Choudry, McGill University

Papers

• Against Carceral Common Sense: Learning to Teach Prison Abolitionism on the Inside-Out - Lena Carla Palacios, McGill University

• Social Movements, Resistance, and Participatory Research in Postapartheid South Africa - Salim Vally, University of Johannesburg

• Learning in North-South NGO (Nongovernmental Organization) Partnerships: Making Sense of the Local Through the Translocal - Erin Sirett, McGill University

• Building Counter-Power From the Ground Up: Contesting NGOization Through Social Movement Learning and Knowledge Production - Aziz Choudry, McGill University