Adult Education And Socialist Pedagogy

Author : Frank Youngman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429780443
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Adult Education and Socialist Pedagogy written by Frank Youngman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-11-12 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1986, this book was written at a time of increasing pressure on traditional areas of secondary and higher education and changing employment patterns - a situation which still exists today. Then, as now, there is increased awareness that the continuing education of adults has a vital role to play in our society. This volume develops a socialist pedagogy within adult education, using a Marxist theoretical framework. It proposes socialism as the radical form of change necessary to remove obstacles to greater social justice and educational equality and studies the implications of this political position for adult education.

Author : Stephen D. Brookfield
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470873086
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Radicalizing Learning written by Stephen D. Brookfield and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-08-26 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Radicalizing Learning calls for a total rethinking of what the field of adult education stands for and how adult educators should assess their effectiveness. Arguing that major changes in society are needed to create a more just world, the authors set out to show how educators can help learners envision and enact this radical transformation. Specifically, the book explores the areas of adult learning, training, teaching, facilitation, program development, and research. Each chapter provides a guide to the different paradigms and perspectives that prevail across the field of theory and practice. The authors then tie all of the themes into how adult learning for participatory democracy works in a diverse society.

Author : Colin Griffin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000532380
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Adult Education: As Social Policy written by Colin Griffin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-02-26 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1987, Adult Education: As Social Policy intends to provide an introduction to the social policy analysis of adult education, contributing to the larger literature around lifelong or continuing education. The roots of policy in alternative social welfare models are traced to their ideological sources and to the origins of adult education theory itself. The development of professionalism is also considered in relation to policy analysis and there is a case study of major policy documents to illustrate the analysis. The book will be of interest to students of pedagogy, education, and policy.

Author : Diana Coben
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135586535
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Radical Heroes written by Diana Coben and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-08 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1998. This book examines the ideas of two of the most controversial radical heroes of adult education, Antonio Gramsci and Paulo Freire, gauging their significance for the development of a radical politics of adult education in the post-Soviet, post-apartheid new world order. Gramsci offers a noble vision of the role of adult education in the creation of revolutionary Marxist hegemony; but the cause he lived and died for has all but collapsed. Nevertheless, his distinction between common sense and good sense, his theory of the intellectual and his concept of hegemony bear scrutiny today. In Freire's pedagogy of the oppressed, the relationship between leader and followed, teacher and student, is problematic and this book questions whether his pedagogy has the liberating potential he envisioned. The author considers and rejects the linkage of Gramsci's and Freire's ideas in the adult education literature. Nonetheless, Gramsci and Freire have huge symbolic importance as radical heroes in an under-theorized and marginalised field. The study highlights a problem with the radical hero phenomenon: when individuals become icons, their ideas cease to be open, and new insights do not emerge as challenge becomes inadmissible and debate dies. While neither Gramsci nor Freire can provide us with answers, Gramsci helps us address the difficult questions of purpose and content in the politics of adult education.

Author : Tom G. Griffiths
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400747276
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Logics of Socialist Education written by Tom G. Griffiths and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-09-11 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For some, socialism is a potent way of achieving economic, political and social transformations in the twenty-first century, while others find the very term socialism outdated. This book engages readers in a discussion about the viability of socialist views on education and identifies the capacity of some socialist ideas to address a range of widely recognized social ills. It argues that these pervasive social problems, which plague so-called ‘developed’ societies as much as they contribute to the poverty, humiliation and lack of prospects in the rest of the world, fundamentally challenge us to act. In our contemporary world-system, distancing ourselves from the injustices of others is neither viable nor defensible. Rather than waiting for radically new solutions to emerge, this book sees the possibility of transformation in the reconfiguration of existing social logics that comprise our modern societies, including logics of socialism. The book presents case studies that offer a critical examination of education in contemporary socialist contexts, as well as reconsidering examples of education under historical socialism. In charting these alternatives, and retooling past solutions in a nuanced way, it sets out compelling evidence that it is possible to think and act in ways that depart from today’s dominant educational paradigm. It offers contemporary policy makers, researchers, and practitioners a cogent demonstration of the contemporary utility of educational ideas and solutions associated with socialism. A pioneering collection of essays which is central to understanding the historical and contemporary meanings of socialism in the context of neoliberal globalization. It is a most timely contribution to a growing intellectual project that challenges the hegemony of capitalism, while re-thinking and theorizing alternatives. Iveta Silova, Associate Professor of Comparative Education, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, USA In this significant contribution to recent scholarship the authors use the lens of socialist education to offer an original critique of hegemonic capitalism, and present an intellectually rigorous search for alternatives by reconsidering historical socialism and advancing promising educational experiments that challenge the 'global architecture of education'. Anders Breidlid, Professor of International Education and Development, Oslo University College, Norway

Author : Tom G. Griffiths
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131735303X
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Education in/for Socialism written by Tom G. Griffiths and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-02 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book re-examines aspects of historical socialism, and includes case studies of education within twenty-first century socialist and post-socialist contexts shaped by the trajectories of historical socialism. Through these case studies, contributions offer insights into key questions: How are education systems and student subjectivities shaped by post-socialist trajectories and current regional politics, economics and resistance movements? How do sedimented socialist discourses and geographies alter and contest the ‘neoliberal child’ and ‘childhood’ in post-socialist education? How have disjunctures between the rhetoric of historical Marxism-Leninism and the practices of educators, students and student political organizations played out under socialism, and what could we learn from that for our present? How much emancipatory potential is there in the theories and practices of (popular) education for combatting injustice in the absence of mass, revolutionary political parties? Above all, this volume affirms the need to move beyond simplistic accounts of historical socialism and post-socialist transitions. By exploring how socialist trajectories remain influential and have potential in our current contexts, this book contributes to the work of politically engaged educators working to re-imagine and reconstruct education. This book was originally published as a special issue of Globalisation, Societies and Education.

Author : Various Authors
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 0429771673
Total Pages : 6639 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Routledge Library Editions: Adult Education written by Various Authors and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2020-03-31 with total page 6639 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Against a background of profound wordwide social and economic change, the purpose of schooling and the place of learning in our everyday lives, educational institutions are opening up to those traditionally deprived of the opportunity. These books, originally published between 1979 and 1992 with many including global case studies reflect upon major issues confronting adult educators worldwide and discuss the role of adult education in social and community action; examine the relationship between class and adult education; look at the concept of culture and the transmission of cultural values in relations to adult education; evaluate the role of adult education in reducing unemployment.

Author : Alexander N. Charters
Publisher : San Francisco : Jossey-Bass Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Comparing Adult Education Worldwide written by Alexander N. Charters and published by San Francisco : Jossey-Bass Publishers. This book was released on 1981 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: International comparison and case studies of adult education within the framework of continuing education - compares legislation, educational systems and educational technology in Asia, Eastern Europe and Western Europe with emphasis on training of trainers in Germany, Federal Republic and German Democratic Republic and literacy programmes in developing countries; discusses role of educational institutions, voluntary organizations, UN and specialized agencies; identifies priorities and common guidelines for educational research. Bibliography.

Author : Pat Campbell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135654107
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Participatory Practices in Adult Education written by Pat Campbell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-05-18 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Documents participatory practices in adult educational programs, institutions, the community, and the workplace. Offers detailed examples, models, and suggestions.

Author : National Institute of Adult Continuing Education (England and Wales)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Adult Learning, Critical Intelligence and Social Change written by National Institute of Adult Continuing Education (England and Wales) and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What lies beyond the current preoccupation with education and its relationship to economic growth? Has the idea of community engagement in the mixed economy of welfare through a radical, critical form of participative learning disappeared, or is it re-emerging in a different form? Adult Learning, Critical Intelligence and Social Change offers a wide range of perspectives on these and other issues which have emerged since the 1980s. In the last 15 years, adult education has been subjected to restructuring around the promotion of market forces, moving away from the agenda of education for transformation towards a narrower agenda of meeting vocational needs. In the process, it has become demonstrably less neutral and more overtly controversial, more vital than ever in providing essential skills and knowledge and in developing alternative visions for democratic social change. This book reviews the context of these developments and focuses on contemporary debates in workplace and community based adult education and the impact of NVQs, competence based approaches and APL on women and ethnic minority communities.Individual essays illustrate critical and dynamic approaches to adult learning, providing examples of commitment and progressive perspectives in practice, in Britain and beyond. The book opens with a critical review of the context for these changes and of the theoretical debates which attempt to analyse and explain them. The chapters which follow offer specific challenges to postmodernism in relation to adult learning, and focus more generally on critical debates around culture and theory. Developments in trade union education, women's education and vocational education are considered in depth. Both as an expert overview of developments since 1980 and as a source of inspiration for a more progressive agenda, this collection will appeal to students and practitioners in all forms of adult education