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This article is a reflection on the notion of curriculum based on the work of the Community Education Programme. It emerges from on-going thinking within the CEP about our work and is an attempt to surface and investigate how some of our assumptions about curriculum making have translated in the messy business of developing a non-formal community education programme.

Our research question was: How can public adult learning centres be transformed to offer learning opportunities throughout life that play a role in youth and adults organising themselves to work together, to provide social support, build unity, claim their rights, develop their community and transform society?

As community educators working on gardening projects in Port Elizabeth we see the truth of Tracy Ledger’s statement because of very difficult economic circumstances in our communities.