Theme of this issue is "Adult education and the community"

Overview articles Rela , Volume 2 Number 2, October 2011

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Tobias Harding

Learning democracy in a Swedish gamers’ association: Representative democracy as experiential knowledge in a liquid civil society

Estrella Gualda, Emilio Lucio-Villegas, Vània Martins, Teresa González Gómez, Juan M. Gualda and António Fragoso

Learning contexts of the others: Identity building processes in southern Europe

Barry Golding

Not just petrol heads: Men’s learning in the community through participation in motor sports

Hana Cervinkova

International learning communities for global and local citizenship

Joke Vandenabeele, Peter Reyskens and Danny Wildemeersch

Diverse views on citizenship, community and participation: Exploring the role of adult education research and practice

Tess Maginess

Paradoxes unbounded: Practising community making

Book review

Community education, learning and development

By Lynn Tett (Third Edition) (Edinburgh, Dunedin Academic Press Ltd., 2010) 126 pp., (Rozalia Ligus)

The European journal for Research on the Education and Learning of Adults (RELA) is a refereed academic journal creating a forum for the publication of critical research on adult education and learning. It has a particular focus on issues at stake for adult education and learning in Europe, as these emerge in connection with wider international and transnational dynamics and trends. Such a forum is important at a time when local and regional explorations of issues are often difficult to foreground across language barriers. As academic and policy debate is increasingly carried out in the English language, this masks the richness of research knowledge, responses and trends from diverse traditions and foci. The journal thus attempts to be linguistically 'open access'. Whilst creating a forum for international and transnational debate, contributions are particularly welcome from authors in Europe and other locations where English is not the first language.

RELA invites original, scholarly articles that discuss the education and learning of adults from different academic disciplines, perspectives and traditions. It encourages diversity in theoretical and methodological approach and submissions from non-English speakers. All published contributions in RELA are subjected to a rigorous peer review process based on two moments of selection: an initial editorial screening and a double-blind review by at least two anonymous referees. Clarity and conciseness of thought are crucial requirements for publication.

RELA is published on behalf of the European Society for Research on the Education of Adults (ESREA).