Course Contents:

1. The concepts of citizenship and active citizenship in social theory and contemporary politics

2. Identity, its nature and sources; individual and collective identities

3. Psychological perspectives on identity development; identity in adulthood

4. Individualization, individualism, lifestyle and identity, recognition in contemporary social theories

5. The relations between active citizenship, learning and identity at local to global levels

6. Identity change under globalization, multiple identities, and cosmopolitan citizenship

7. Community education

8. Social movements as learning sites

9. Dialogue in adult education, theory of transformative learning, education and emancipation in Freire’s theory

10. The role of identity in 19th and 20th century adult education

11. Social learning, situated learning, communities of practice and biographical approaches to research on adult learning

12. Ways to examine the relationship between active citizenship and learning

13. Empirical evidence on the relationship between active citizenship, identity and adult learning