Just Education – Project “Dynamics of Inequalities in Participation in Higher and Adult Education: A Comparative Social Justice Perspective”

GREAT HONOUR! Cyril O. Houle Award for Outstanding Literature in Adult Education

Professor Pepka Boyadjieva and Associate Professor Petya Ilieva-Trichkova are the 2022 recipient of the American Association for Adult and Continuing Education (AAACE) Cyril O. Houle Award for Outstanding Literature in Adult Education for their book: Adult Education as Empowerment: Re-imagining Lifelong Learning through the Capability Approach, Recognition Theory and Common Goods Perspective. Palgrave Macmillan. Adult Education as Empowerment | SpringerLink This book was prepared as part of the work…

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Just Education

The project “DYNAMICS OF INEQUALITIES IN PARTICIPATION IN HIGHER AND ADULT EDUCATION: A COMPARATIVE SOCIAL JUSTICE PERSPECTIVE” (JUSTEDU) is realized by the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences with the financial support of the Bulgarian Science Fund, National Scientific Program “Vihren”, contract КП-06-ДВ-2 from 16th of December 2019. The project will develop an innovative multi-disciplinary theoretical framework for reconsidering the social justice in participation in…

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Social Problem

Despite the persistent worldwide trend of massification of higher education and the steady increase in the involvement of adults in learning activities, social inequalities in higher and adult education remain among the major problems of contemporary societies. The crucial importance of this problem stems from the fact that educational inequalities determine to a great extent economic inequalities and inequalities in civic participation and social trust. The recent crisis, triggered by…

Aims and Objectives

The project aims at providing new theoretical and evidence-based insights into: a) the understanding of the complex character of social justice in participation in higher and adult education; b) the dynamics of inequalities in participation in higher and adult education in a comparative perspective and c) the multi-faceted socio-economic and cultural factors and consequences of inequalities in higher and adult education. The project has the following objectives: to elaborate an…

Methodology

The project will approach the formulated research objectives by a complex methodology which tries to overcome the drawbacks and challenges in the available research and which consists of both theoretical and empirical research streams and methods. More specifically, our methodology envisages: developing a multi-disciplinary and multi-dimensional theoretical framework which has never been applied before and which accounts for the multi-faceted nature of social justice in adult and higher education by…