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'I cannot be passive as I was before': learning from grassroots innovations in Ukraine
- Source :
- European Journal for Research on the Education and Learning of Adults, Vol 8, Iss 2, Pp 225-243 (2016), European journal for Research on the Education and Learning of Adults 8 (2017) 2, S. 225-243
- Publication Year :
- 2016
- Publisher :
- Linköping University Electronic Press, 2016.
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Abstract
- The study explores learning processes and outcomes inside grassroots innovations that are emerging in post-Euromaidan times in Ukraine. The study analyses the assumption that this non-traditional education space can be adequate for sustainability transition learning and critical consciousness development. First, the study describes, connects, and operationalizes the concepts of critical consciousness, sustainability transition, and grassroots innovations. Then, it analyses two cases of grassroots innovations (two online sharing platforms), using these operationalized concepts. The results show that learning and critical consciousness development inside grassroots niches are much more connected to previous experience, such as participation in the protest event Euromaidan, than to inner niche learning interactions. While, the online platforms keep alive some of the aspirations that motivated people to become a part of the Euromaidan protest. In this sense, such grassroots innovations keep the values and priorities of the participants “alive” and ensure that the critical consciousness that was acquired does not simply slide backwards. Do shocking events like Euromaidan protest have to happen in order to accelerate learning about values of solidarity and responsibility, as well as to develop critical consciousness needed for sustainability transition? Despite the impossibility to completely answer this question, this study gave some tips, suggesting components of critical conscious development needed for this type of learning¾dialog, reflection, action, leading to increase in efficacy and agency.
- Subjects :
- Critical consciousness
Erziehung, Schul- und Bildungswesen
Fallstudie
On line
Case study
Freire
Bewusstseinsbildung
Education
Transformation
Exemplary model
Bildungssoziologie
Grassroots
ddc:370
Political science
Entwicklungsprozess
Learning process
Erwachsenenbildung / Weiterbildung
0502 economics and business
Pedagogy
050602 political science & public administration
Online service
Recycling
Consciousness raising
Case Studies (Education)
Innovation
Lernergebnis
Online-Angebot
Freire, Paulo
Euromaidan
Social movement
lcsh:LC8-6691
Nachhaltigkeit
lcsh:Special aspects of education
Learning performance
05 social sciences
Soziale Bewegung
transition
Protest
critical consciousness
0506 political science
Developmental continuity
Sustainability
Ukraine
Lernprozess
050203 business & management
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 20007426
- Volume :
- 8
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- European Journal for Research on the Education and Learning of Adults
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....bcc97363d65b7f662ddeefa68b1d1c57