Adult Learning Critical Intelligence And Social Change

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

Author : T. Ollis
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137016442
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Critical Pedagogy of Embodied Education written by T. Ollis and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-04-14 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the differences and similarities between two groups: lifelong activists who have been engaged in campaigns and socials movements over many years and circumstantial activists, those protestors who come to activism due to a series of life circumstances. Outlines the pedagogy of activism and the process of learning to become an activist.

Author : Roger Harrison
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415259262
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Supporting Lifelong Learning: Perspectives on learning written by Roger Harrison and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Open University Reader examines the practices of learning and teaching which have been developed to support lifelong learning, and the understanding and assumptions which underpin them. The selection of texts trace the widening scope of academic understanding of learning and teaching, and considers the implications for those who develop programmes of learning. It examines in great depth those theories which have had the greatest impact in the field, theories of reflection and learning from experience and theories of situated learning. The implications of these theories ar examined in relation to themes which run across the reader, namely, workplace learning, literacies, and the possibilities offered by information and communication technologies. The particular focus of this Reader is on the psychological or cognitive phenomena that happen in the minds of individual learners. The readings have been selected to represent a range of experience in different sectors of education from around the globe.

Author : A. Abdi
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230617972
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Global Perspectives on Adult Education written by A. Abdi and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-12-22 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book demonstrates how processes of globalization (economic, cultural, socio-political) are creating new possibilities and inequities and are thereby creating corresponding roles for adult education and learning in the South (Africa, Asia, South America) that are embedded in multiple political, economic and cultural projects for social change.

Author : Roger Harrison
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415259293
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Supporting Lifelong Learning: Organising learning written by Roger Harrison and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book looks at what types of learning environments promote lifelong learning, how they can be organized to support meaningful learning and what the implications of these shifts are for managers.

Author : Alexis Kokkos
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429647212
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Expanding Transformation Theory written by Alexis Kokkos and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Expanding Transformation Theory offers a deeper understanding of the philosophy, principles and major components of Transformation Theory, which was developed by Jack Mezirow. It provides a thorough comprehension of the affinities of the theory with other emancipatory theoretical views and provides the readers with an expanded insight of the core theoretical framework that will support their research and educational practice. The book juxtaposes Mezirow’s perspective with those of ten major emancipatory educationalists – Dewey, Freire, Gould, Marsick, Socrates, Kegan, Greene, Argyris, Illeris, and Jarvis, respectively, who all share the idea of learning with the aim of changing problematic perceptions and behaviours. Such issues as convergences and divergences among the theoretical perspectives, as well as the impact of the theoretical ideas that Mezirow incorporated in his work, are addressed. The work of Mezirow is further reviewed in order to pinpoint the dimensions which appear to have been confirmed and endure over time, and, in turn, those that seem to need expansion or even revision. This book will be of great interest to researchers, academics, students, and adult educators who are interested in transformative learning theory and emancipatory education

Author : Carole Leathwood
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134188625
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gender and Lifelong Learning written by Carole Leathwood and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-10-03 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This insightful book is ideal for students, researchers and policy makers wanting a sound overview of the critical issues of gender in lifelong learning. Asking pertinent questions relating to discourses on policy, the authors offer the reader a rare view of lifelong learning from a gender-focused perspective, filling a gap in the literature and moving current debate on into new areas. Questions addressed include: To what extent can the policy discourses and institutional contexts of lifelong learning be seen as masculinised and/or feminised? What are the gender implications of lifelong learning policy? In what ways are learners’ identities constructed through lifelong learning? Does lifelong learning provide opportunities to challenge or transgress gender binaries? What are the implications for practice?

Author : Julia Clarke
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134512570
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Supporting Lifelong Learning written by Julia Clarke and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2001-11-22 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Open University Reader examines the practices of learning and teaching which have been developed to support lifelong learning, and the understanding and assumptions which underpin them. The selection of texts trace the widening scope of academic understanding of learning and teaching, and considers the implications for those who develop programmes of learning. It examines in great depth those theories which have had the greatest impact in the field, theories of reflection and learning from experience and theories of situated learning. The implications of these theories ar examined in relation to themes which run across the reader, namely, workplace learning, literacies, and the possibilities offered by information and communication technologies. The particular focus of this Reader is on the psychological or cognitive phenomena that happen in the minds of individual learners. The readings have been selected to represent a range of experience in different sectors of education from around the globe.

Author : S. Mojab
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230370373
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Educating from Marx written by S. Mojab and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-09-14 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Educators have been working to develop an important body of literature on neo-liberalism, capitalism, and imperialism. This combines original empirical studies with literature review from critical adult education and feminist theory to examine the theories, and practices of adult education from a Marxist-Feminist perspective.

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9460911447
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Social Justice Education for Teachers written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social Justice Education for Teachers: Paulo Freire and the Possible Dream is a book that will help teachers in their commitment to and praxis of an education for social justice. The book traces the reception of Freire’s ideas in the USA, Canada, Latin America, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia and provides some glimpses of topical yet seminal interventions in the philosophy of education, including studies of the relationships between Freire and Rousseau, Freire and Dewey, or Freire and Gramsci.