Informal, Mutual and Transformative Learning for Social Justice

by University Press Plc

Olutoyin Mejiuni’s valedictory volume comprises two sections. The first is an exercise in self- definition, while the second is others' definition of Olutoyin Mejiuni and their affirmation and furtherance of the focus of her work — equality, inclusion and social justice. In the first section, Olutoyin taps into her formative years and her personal experiences as a young scholar, a mature teacher and mentor, a qualitative/mixed methods researcher, an adult education practitioner, and an activist for social justice to explore the interface of the enabling and disabling dimensions of power and other visible and invisible contextual issues with informal learning, mutual learning and transformative learning processes. She then highlights the social justice and injustice issues and practices that result from this nexus.
In the second section, Olutoyin’s colleagues, friends and mentees, in short think pieces, explore interdisciplinary themes that have implications for social justice. The themes Omoluabi and character (Iwa), sexual abuse of the elderly; obstetric violence; informal learning, mutual learning and women’s learning; women advocacy research, scholarly rigour and activist wisdom; patriarchal lying and co/wo(mentoring); and Nollywood, culture and women’s identities. Others voluntary teaching of internally displaced children; researching girls' education in IDPs camps; mother tongue-based bilingual education; contextual issues impacting formal education; training and development in the Nigerian public service; and uprooting corruption from the Nigerian university system.

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Published September 5, 2023