«It is wonderful to read such inspiring experiences of adult learning and education in relation to social change. The offered insightful tools of analysis are comprehensive and accessible. This book provides an excellent cutting-edge vision of how and why equitable and inclusive approaches can create opportunities and broaden horizons globally.»

Priti Chopra, University of Greenwich, UK

«At a time of growing global polarization, precarity and volatility, this collection provides a fascinating and heart-warming set of insights into the ways in which often unacknowledged adult learning projects and initiatives continue to enrich the social fabric of British society. Tracing the foundations of adult education in the devastation of the post-World War 1 period and post-Spanish Flu outbreak, across efforts to build solidarity with radical adult education movements in other countries, the collection shows that adult education continues to be a ‘permanent national necessity’, despite the efforts of neoliberal government to cut-back, curtail or co-opt such work. Offering a wide range of new analytical concepts to understand how this enriching of the social fabric occurs through adult learning, the book charts a course that researchers and scholars of adult education across the world could draw from to document the role of such work in wider processes of social change.»

Catherine Kell, University of Cape Town, South Africa