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Can adult education and learning be understood without reference to community and people’s daily lives? Our response is no, it cannot. We think that adult education can be understood if we look at the social life of people in communities, and this book is an attempt to recover this view.
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Evans, R., Kurantowicz, E., Lucio-Villegas, E. (2016). Introduction. In: Evans, R., Kurantowicz, E., Lucio-Villegas, E. (eds) Researching and Transforming Adult Learning and Communities. Research on the Education and Learning of Adults. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-358-2_1
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