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My name is Joyce McKnight and I have been an adult educator/popular educator/community organizer for about forty years now. My vocational main interest at the moment is participating in the creation of a network of community educators that can accomplish in the twenty-first century what innovators like Myles Horton in the US and Paulo Freire on the worldwide scene were able to accomplish. I am especially interested in Horton's work at a place in the United States called the Highlander Folk School that was instrumental in bringing leaders first from the US Labor Movement and then from the US Civil Rights Movement together to share ideas and to strengthen one another.

I am not sure how to accomplish this dream...but I intuitively feel that it is possible to create a comfortable, safe place on the web where those who want to make a difference in their communities can meet, relax, enjoy each good company,get some good ideas and then return to their daily tasks feeling refreshed and supported. So far it seems to me that WikiEducator has the possibility of being such a community. I am glad to have found you all and am looking forward to this experienced.

I must admit,though, that I may not participate as much as I would like as I feel quite overwhelmed with my own work at the moment. I will share more about that as I edit this page.