Pathways of participation: How community-based adult education in the Netherlands empowers feminist and women’s movements
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: How do civic associations devoted to community-based adult education enhance the presence and impacts of broader-level social movements in democratic societies? This article utilizes the concepts of ‘free space’ and ‘pathways of participation’ to investigate how the educational actions deployed by several women’s associations in the southern Netherlands generate strategic connections to the feminist and women’s movements. Drawing on a qualitative case study, attention is placed on four types of educational action that produce pathways of participation to social movements: raising public awareness, promoting emancipatory literacy, building solidarity, and stimulating transformative action. By way of conclusion, future avenues of research are suggested to promote scholarship on the nexus of social movements and community-based adult education.
Source: Journal of Civil Society
Authors: Julia S. van Zijl, Kai A. Heidemann
Institution: Maastricht University
Language: English
Subfield: Education
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W4410628440