Building Inclusive Communities through Education and Learning

Edited By: Klara Skubic Ermenc, Borut Mikulec

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This book examines the complex relationship between learning, education, and community. Using Slovenian studies with global relevance, it offers a unique perspective shaped by the historical European experience of attempting collective unity in former Yugoslavia.

The book addresses the complex relationships among learning, education and the community. It examines the significance of the community for the individual’s development and the…

The book addresses the complex relationships among learning, education and the community. It examines the significance of the community for the individual’s development and the potential that learning and education have for the development of the community. The volume gathers together the findings of a number of quantitative and qualitative studies conducted on different samples, theoretical discussions set in comparative international contexts. Although the studies employ Slovenian samples and analyse situations in this country, the contributions address issues that are of concern to the global research community. Moreover, they respond to international debates and engage in the dialogue between the local/partial and the global/universal. The book is unique in its embeddedness in the intellectual continental European tradition that has been characterised by the failed historical experience of attempting collective unity through the community understood as a common identity in former Yugoslavia.

Dr Klara Skubic Ermenc is Associate Professor at the Department of Educational Sciences of the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. In 2016, she worked as a Visiting Professor at the University of Belgrade, Serbia. She has published around 50 scientific articles and book chapters in scientific monographs, and one textbook. She also co-authored nine edited volumes, and co-edited seven more. Between 2015 and 2017, she was the editor-in-chief of Journal of Contemporary Educational Studies. She is currently the President of the National Association of Slovenian Educationalists.

Dr Borut Mikulec is Assistant Professor for Adult Education at the Department of Educational Sciences of the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. His fields of research are comparative adult and continuing education, the theory of adult and community education, the role of transnational organisations in education policy, the professional development of adult educators, and the policy of lifelong learning. He is an editor-in-chief of the journal Studies in Adult Education and Learning.

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