ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to uncover and identify what Cho calls a ‘world of alternative values and practices’ in the sites. Connections between the sites that indicate attempts at providing this world of alternatives are explored through the themes of ‘story and experience’; ‘occupation and reclamation’; and ‘conscientization’. The chapter argues that there may well be a need for forms of organisation that have clear pedagogical direction accompanied by strong and collective procedures and mechanisms that are able, and encouraged, to subvert and constrain any emergent vanguards. It discusses whether the connections that are uncovered between the sites could constitute a learning loop which can cycle as a form of praxis, creating the proposed ‘grand action research cycle’. T. Ollis argues that all activism, in fact all politicisation, is an invitation to learning. Resulting in politically literate, critically engaged independent learners for whom education has a different meaning than the schooled consuming of official knowledge.
