Friends,

Some lovely news.  We have just learned that Dr. Lean Heng Chan of Malaysia, one of the best-known champion of women worker's rights  and participatory research throughout Asia and a founding executive member of the Global Alliance for Community Engaged Research has been recognised for membership in the International Adult Education Hall of Fame for 2012.  Hip Hip Hooray.

Budd L Hall and Rajesh TandonCo-Chairs

UNESCO Chair in Community-Based Research and Social Responsibility of Higher Education

Some Further Good Reading

Peter V. Hall and Ian MacPherson

Community-University Research Partnerships: Reflections on the Canadian Social Economy Experience” is a free pdf  or epub download, or available for purchase on-line.

http://www.ccednet-rcdec.ca/en/node/10640

What is this?  A terrific set of papers on community based research and collaborative scholarship that have grown out of a multi year national research project on the social economy in Canada

Mike Lewis and Pat Conaty

The Resilience Imperative: Cooperative Transitions to a Steady State Economy

What is this?   A serious and thorough international study that both calls for an alternative to savage global capitalism and shows how a transition from a growth-only economic platform to a resilience economy, which is cooperative and stable, is possible.  Global implications.

New Society Publishers

Leona English and Peter Mayo  

Learning with Adults: A Critical Pedagogical Introduction Sense Publishers

What is this? Leona English and Peter Mayo challenge hegemonic assumptions and ideas, while offering a constructive alternative based on the principle of working with learners and just for them.  Global in scope by scholars from Canada and Malta.

Marjorie Kelly

Owning our Future: The Emerging Ownership Revolution-Journeys to a Generative Economy 

Berrett-Koehler Publishers

What is this?  As long as businesses are set up to focus exclusively on maximizing financial income for the few, our economy will be locked into endless growth and widening inequality. But now people are experimenting with new forms ofr ownership which Marjorie Kelly calls generative aimed at creating the conditions for life for many generations to come.