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Thematic issue of RELA: European Journal for Research on the Education and Learning of AdultsPower is imbued in adult education and learning practices at all levels and in all instances where learning is said to occur, or where it occurs - at the level of policy making where decisions are made of how adult education should be shaped, financed and carried out, at the level of learning in the literacy classroom interaction among students and the teacher, or, at the level of individual interaction through a conversation at the local coffee shop. Historically, power has been an important concept for adult education researchers as a way to theorize coercion, oppression, repression and the possibilities for resistances to power and empowerment in adult education, or to map the workings of power and its limitations. Today, is no different, although “new” concepts of power are introduced, old ones used or re-shaped and put to work. (...)Lire la suite : http://www.rela.ep.liu.se/documents/mapping_power_CFP.pdfSubmission deadline: March 15, 2013