Pedagogies of Solidarity

What is it about?

In what ways can adult education programs forge empowering links to social movements? Drawing on a qualitative case study, this article examines the repertoire of knowledge-building practices mobilized from within a state-based system of adult education in francophone Belgium. Building on social movement theory, it is shown how formalized sites of adult education can empower the presence of social movements in society when they adopt counter-hegemonic principles of popular education that allow them to act as free spaces which facilitate the construction of strategic capacities and collective identities. The findings contribute to understandings of how social movements can emerge from within institutionalized educational systems.

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