| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 407 pages) |
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International issues in adult education ; volume 13 |
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International issues in adult education ; v. 13.
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| Contents |
Lifelong Learning and the Learning Society. Learning to Walk on Quicksand / Zygmunt Bauman -- Youth and Adult Education and Lifelong Learning in Latin America and the Caribbean / Rosa Maria Torres -- The Learning Society / D.W. Livingstone -- Adult Learning, Difference and Identity. "We Must Believe in Ourselves" / Peter Rule and Tadi Ruth Modipa -- Women, Sport and Adult Education / Cynthia Lee A. Pemberton and Eileen Casey White -- Queering the Discourse / Robert Hill -- Migration, Education, Gender / Ursula Apitzsch -- Adult Education and European Identity / Oskar Negt -- Anti-Colonial Subaltern Social Movement (SSM) Learning and Development Dispossession in India / Dip Kapoor -- Sites and Instruments of Practice. ICTs and Adult Learning / Behrang Foroughi and Leona English -- Radio as Public Pedagogy / Antonia Darder and Antonia Darder -- Adult Education and Film/Television / Asoke Bhattacharya -- Literacies, Narratives and Adult Learning in Libraries / Jim Elmborg -- Community Development and the Arts / Mae Shaw and Rosie Meade -- The Use of Aesthetic Experience in Unearthing Critical Thinking / Alexis Kokkos -- The Folk High School / Palle Rasmussen -- Four Decades of Universities of the Third Age / Marvin Formosa -- The European Agenda for Education in Prison / Joseph Giordmaina -- Learning in Everyday Life. Transformative Learning / Patricia Cranton -- Adult Literacies / Lyn Tett -- Learning (Through) Consumption / Kaela Jubas -- Social Creation / Antonia De Vita and Anna Maria Piussi -- Policy and Regions. Adult Education and Poverty Reduction / Julia Preece -- Cinderella and the Search for the Missing Shoe / Daniel Schugurensky and John P. Myers -- Adult Citizenship Education and Political Engagement in Sub-Saharan Africa / Edward Shizha and Ali A. Abdi -- Adult Education Policy in Micro-States / Didacus Jules -- Globalisation, Southern Europe and European Adult Education Policy / Carmel Borg and Peter Mayo |
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pt. I. Lifelong learning and the learning society -- pt. II. Adult learning, difference and identity -- pt. III. Sites and instruments of practice -- pt. IV. Learning in everyday life -- pt. V. Policy and regions |
| Summary |
This anthology brings together some of the finest writers on different aspects of adult education and related areas to provide a complementary reader to the introductory text by Leona English and Peter Mayo Learning with Adults: A Critical Introduction. Areas tackled include Disability, Prisons, Third Age Universities, Lifelong Learning Policy, Learning Society, Poverty, LGBTQ, Sport, Women, Literacy, Transformative Learning, Community Arts, Aesthetics, Consumption, Migration, Libraries, Folk High Schools, Adult Education Policy, Subaltern Southern Social Movements, Social Creation, Community Radio, Social Film. Contexts focused on include Africa, Caribbean, Europe, Latin America, Asia (India), small island states. Over thirty authors involved including Zygmunt Bauman, Rosa Maria Torres, Oskar Negt, Antonia Darder, Jim Elmborg, D.W. Livingstone, Palle Rasmussen, Mae Shaw, Leona English, Asoke Bhattacharya, Cynthia L. Pemberton, Eileen Casey White, Daniel Schugurensky, Dip Kapoor, Peter Rule, John Myers, Joseph Giordmaina, Antonia De Vita, Alexis Kokkos, Marvin Formosa, Carmel Borg, Julia Preece, Patricia Cranton, Lyn Tett, Ali A. Abdi, Anna Maria Piussi, Behrang Foroughi, Taadi Ruth Modipa, Robert Hill, Edward Shiza, Kaela Jubas and Didacus Jules. ... Learning with Adults: A Reader constitutes the most valuable practical and theoretical reflection on adult education I have seen in a long time. Nelly P. Stromquist, Professor, International Education Policy, College of Education University of Maryland, College Park ... This book provides an opportunity at a very appropriate moment to discuss adult education issues during challenging times. Paula Guimarães, University of Lisbon ... Read and savour delights and surprises. Michael Welton, UBC and Athabasca University This book satisfies everything one could desire of a reader on the subject. Kenneth Wain, University of Malta |
| Notes |
"The companion reader to Leona English and Peter Mayo (2012), Learning with Adults. A Critical Pedagogical Introduction, Winner of the 2013 Cyril O. Houle Award for "Outstanding Literature in Adult Education""--Cover |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Continuing education.
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Critical pedagogy.
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Adult education -- Philosophy
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continuing education.
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EDUCATION -- Adult & Continuing Education.
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EDUCATION -- Non-Formal Education.
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Adult education -- Philosophy
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Continuing education
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Critical pedagogy
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Mayo, Peter, 1955-
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English, Leona M., 1963-
Learning with adults
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| ISBN |
9789462093355 |
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9462093350 |
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