This article argues for the beneficial interconnectedness of adult basic education as an educational practice, community-based participatory research as a methodological approach, and the framework of transformative learning, for exploring and theorizing about adult learning and education. It is elaborated that these three approaches are connected by shared core values that counter the dominant economistic discourse on adult basic education. A community-based participatory research project, comprising researchers with an adult basic education learners’ background, adult basic education practitioners, and the two authors as university-based researchers, serves as a local empirical example. Selected data from the research process illustrate how these three approaches complement each other and can show their inherent potential. Together, these three approaches establish a democratic space of learning and thus act as a resource of hope for education and research aimed at (self-) empowerment, emancipation, participation, and collective action toward humanization, democratization, and social justice.

本文主张成人基础教育作为一种教育实践、基于社区的参与式研究作为一种方法论方法以及变革性学习的框架之间有益的相互联系，以探索和理论化成人学习和教育。阐述了这三种方法是由共同的核心价值观联系起来的这与有关成人基础教育的主流经济学论述背道而驰。由具有成人基础教育学习者背景的研究人员、成人基础教育从业者和两位作者作为大学研究人员组成的社区参与式研究项目作为当地的实证实例。从研究过程中选择的数据说明了这三种方法如何相互补充并显示它们的内在潜力。这三种方法共同建立了一个民主的学习空间，从而成为教育和研究的希望资源，旨在（自我）赋权、解放、参与和集体行动以实现人性化、民主化和社会正义。