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The Use Of Life History Collage To Investigate Significant Learning Experiences Of Woman Development Leaders From India, Susan Seymour
The Use Of Life History Collage To Investigate Significant Learning Experiences Of Woman Development Leaders From India, Susan Seymour
Adult Education Research Conference
The purpose of this study was to use life history collage to explore significant learning experiences related to the personal empowerment of female development leaders from West Bengal, India. Findings indicate a complicated understanding of empowerment - distinct and unique to Indian culture, customs and familial relationships. Central to each woman’s process of empowerment was contact with and the determination to fight against patriarchal norms. These norms were experienced in the brutality of village life and witnessed in dowry deaths, female infanticide, domestic violence, poverty and ignorance.
Understanding Social Justice Learning In Context: The Usefulness Of Complexity Thinking And Social Movement Learning Theories, Margaret Cain, Susan Seymour
Understanding Social Justice Learning In Context: The Usefulness Of Complexity Thinking And Social Movement Learning Theories, Margaret Cain, Susan Seymour
Adult Education Research Conference
This study explores the usefulness of complexity thinking/enactivism and social movement learning theories to explain the learning of a commitment to social justice of two white, female, privileged adult educators. Analysis of their life history data showed the value of understanding learning as simultaneous, nested learning processes that co-emerge with the learning context. Theories of learning within social movements were also useful to explain some of the participants’ learning through individual and collective levels of learning, politicized experience, and identity development.