Contents -- Contributors 7 -- PART I Introduction -- 1. Introducing the global and the local: a permanent tension for the increasing complexity of human development 15 -- PART II The tensions between Global and Local -- 2. Learning global citizenship? Exploring connections between the local and the global 27 -- 3. Community development for a change: reviewing different models 41 -- 4. Toward emancipatory learning in a global world of academia. Biographical contexts of experiencing HE: in search for life improvement 57 -- 5. Changing places: yearning to learn and the local/global tensions in a learning biography 69 -- PART III National perspectives on Micro-development and adult learning -- 6. Micro development: among localisation, de-localisation and re- localisation processes in the perspective of Polish social and political transformations 89 -- 7. From local to global. What we learn from some experiences of local development in Andalusia (Spain) 105 -- 8. Times goes by: an overview of local development in Portugal António Fragoso 119 -- PART IV Transformation, adult learning and development -- 9. Is there a right to development? 135 -- 10. Adult learning and civil society organisations: Participation for transformation? 149 -- 11. Environmental activism and "virtual social capital": help or hindrance? 161 -- 12. Seeking good change: discovering the transformative potential of adult education 175 -- PART V Adult learning, development and equality -- 13. Migration and global learning spaces 191 -- 14. Elderly people in small local communities of Lower Silesia - spaces of marginalization? 205 -- 15. Learning diasporic identity: The case of Greek Political Refugees in Lower Silesia 217 -- 16. The landscape changes when we alter the perspective: envisaging new ways of looking at old problems through learning relationships with adults 229.