Adult education for social and environmental change in contemporary public art galleries and museums in Canada,Scotland and England

Historically, pubic art galleries and museums have a well-deserved reputation for elitism, colonialism and exclusion and they are, therefore, frequently omitted from the discourse of adult education. However, the escalating social, cultural and ecological problems of this new century have placed pressure on these public institutions to change and respond. Using selective examples, this article attempts to illustrate public arts and cultural institutions as contested, problematic, challenging, yet equally progressive, critical and creative pedagogical spaces that play an important role in the struggle for social and environmental change. Through exhibitions, artworks, objects, workshops and seminars, these institutions trouble identity, decolonize, mock, revisualize, tell alternative stories, reorient authoritative practice, interrogate intolerance and privilege and stimulate critical literacies. We must continue to expose and critique traditions that perpetuate inequalities and maintain the status quo but in a world starved of hope, these sites provide new pedagogical possibilities.     

无处不在的韩剧生活

这年头,不看韩剧的女生估计没几个。眼看着我每天守着韩剧,泪眼婆娑地沉醉在那些“大叔“和“姐姐“的恋情里,就快腐化成一根“高丽棒子“了。狐朋狗友们终于忍无可忍,决意拉着我出去透一次风,洗一次脑,把我从那些虚幻的剧情里拯救出来,过上正常人的生活。经过时间、路程、经济等多方面因素的综合考虑之后,大家决定去位于城市边缘一个叫做“科幻主题公园“的地方。     

Traversing the Gap: Concientización,educative-activism in environmental adult education

Although many individual behaviours have changed and a plethora of collective pro-environmental actions are taking place worldwide, environmental problems continue grow. From a framework of environmental adult education, I believe that by continuing to concentrate on behaviour modification and awareness-raising, we ignore the strengths, knowledge and power of people on the streets, as well as the larger structural and ideological problems at the root or environmental destruction. It is crucial that adult educators, those working with the 'public', acknowledge the serious and sometimes fatal risks of taking political action while encouraging the potential of people to make change through critically-focused educational-activist work.     

爸爸的法则：吉娃娃儿童

1最近我仍然收到一些邮件,是关于我的专栏吉娃娃儿童的。很明显,我们有必要进一步深入地探索这个问题。吉娃娃儿童指代是哪些群体？他们是1-5岁的儿童。他们的行为很典型,坐在他们的大本营——妈妈的膝盖上热衷于忙着控制家里的一切。他们通过吵嚷、哭闹和浑身发抖来达到目的——保证没有人说话,妈妈永远也不离开,而且还要不断地有人喂他们吃东西。     

A feminist study of a political education programme for women

Women’s Campaign School (WCS) is a non-partisan, non-formal three-day educational programme held annually in Vancouver, to empower and inspire women to enter politics and as a means towards socio-political change. Our findings show the WCS provides excellent practical and tactical skills and an experiential learning opportunity that is highly valued by women. However, few felt the lens was feminist and it did little to challenge ingrained gendered social conditioning. We trace dominant discourses of neutrality, anti-feminism, and heteronormativity and discuss the impact these have on creating an emancipatory feminist educational practice for women’s and the culture of politics.