Feminist Adult Education and the Imagination

We live in a deeply troubled world, a world that we, the guest editors of this Special Issue, see as a colossal failure of the imagination. This failure of the imagination is an emboldened neocolonial, patriarchal capitalism which has decided whose stories matter to history whilst putting the future of our planet in peril. It is a failure that ridicules equality, democracy, collectivism and cultures of care as it gives unfettered licence to racism, xenophobia, misogyny and sexualised violence. As a failure of the imagination, colonial patriarchal capitalism manufactures poverty under the auspices and disappears truth and analogue reality under a greed of technical rational innovation. All of this hampers our efforts adult educators to help people not only challenge these practices of power but to imagine a different course.