The Centre for Integrated Post-school Education and Training (CIPSET) explored new possibilities for adult community education. We aimed to work with people who are excluded from the labour market and wanted our work to talk to their lived experience. We wanted through our work to make explicit the global arrangements of power that shape the relationship between education & training, the economy and society. We wanted to understand from the perspective of poor and marginal people what are the knowledge and skills they consider worthwhile learning in building a more equal, just and sustainable society. We wanted to act in support of emerging alternatives and in increasing the space for alternatives to take hold and become self-sustainable. We said then that we were interested in making explicit a pedagogy to support this work.