Reconceptualizes local, national, and transnational adult education practices in light of neoliberalism and globalization.

Honorable Mention, 2017 Phillip E. Frandson Award for Literature in the Field of Professional, Continuing, and/or Online Education presented by the University Professional and Continuing Education Association

This groundbreaking book critiques the boundaries of where adult education takes place through a candid examination of teaching, learning, and working practices in the social periphery. Lives in this context are diverse and made through complex practices that take place in the shadows of formal systems: on streetscapes and farms, in vehicles and homes, and through underground networks. Educators may be family members, friends, or colleagues, and the curriculum may be based on needs, interests, histories, and cultural practices. The case studies presented here analyze adult education in the lives of sex workers, LGBTQ activists, undocumented migrants, disabled workers, homeless youth, immigrants, inmates, and others. Focusing on learning at the social margins, this book challenges readers to reconceptualize local, national, and transnational adult education practices in light of neoliberalism and globalization.

Robert C. Mizzi is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Manitoba. His current research interests largely focus on two areas: LGBTQ educators and educators who cross borders to work in foreign contexts. Robert examines the lives of these groups of educators in both K-12 and adult learning contexts. He has published over 35 chapters, articles and reviews in journals and books, such as the Journal of Homosexuality and Journal of Peace Education. He has also published three books that focus on educator and social development, including the edited book Breaking Free: Sexual Diversity and Change in Emerging Nations (QPI Publications/Lambda Foundation). Robert is a Research Associate for the Arthur Mauro Centre for Peace and Justice (University of Manitoba) and Perspectives Editor (Adult Education) for the journal New Horizons in Adult Education and Human Resource Development. For more information on Robert’s background, please visit www.robertmizzi.com.

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"?offers a timely and important critique of neoliberal and globalizing premises as they situate adult and community education at local, national, and transnational levels — the book provokes readers to think about ethical values, and how power is marshalled, in adult and community learning." — Adult Education Quarterly