Global Perspectives On Adult Education

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 : Matthias Finger
Publisher : Zed Books
ISBN 13 : 9781856497510
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Adult Education at the Crossroads written by Matthias Finger and published by Zed Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adopting a social action perspective, this book is an assessment of where adult education now stands in the world. It argues that the purposes and rationale of adult education need to be reconceptualised for it to become an effective agent of change.

Author : Marcella Milana
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137388250
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Global Perspectives on Adult Education and Learning Policy written by Marcella Milana and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-07-21 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The worldwide appearance and expression of adult education and lifelong learning have changed significantly during the past 20 years. This book explores recent changes in their related national and international policies, how they intersect with developments in higher education and how they may contribute to debates on citizenship and democracy.

Author : Sharan B. Merriam
Publisher : Jossey-Bass
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 568 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Global Issues and Adult Education written by Sharan B. Merriam and published by Jossey-Bass. This book was released on 2006-03-10 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Global Issues and Adult Educationbrings together seven years of cutting-edge research and analysis from the Cyril O. Houle Scholars in Adult and Continuing Education. These emerging leaders in the field investigate the importance of adult education in responding to the challenges of global issues. The book is divided into five sections, each of which examines one overarching topic—globalization and the market economy, marginalized populations, environment and health, community empowerment, and lifelong learning and educational systems. Each section begins with an introduction that provides a framework for understanding the overarching issues and summarizes the chapters in the section.

Author : Peter Mayo
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9781856496148
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gramsci, Freire and Adult Education written by Peter Mayo and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 1999-04 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on two of the most cited figures in the debate on radical education - Antonio Gramsci and Paulo Freire. Both regarded forms of adult education as having an important role to play in the struggle for liberation from oppression. In this book Peter Mayo examines the extent to which their combined insights can provide the foundation for a theory for our own times of transformative adult education. He focuses on three aspects of the pedagogical process in particular -- social relations, sites of practice and the content of adult education. He analyses their ideas and identifies some of the limitations in their work, notably the critical issues of gender and race which they do not address. The book concludes with a seminal attempt at synthesising their ideas in the context of other adult educators' more recent contributions in order to develop a theory of transformative adult education, including an assessment of its feasibility in the era of globalization and neoliberalism.

Author : Shirley Walters
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Globalization, Adult Education and Training written by Shirley Walters and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Globalization' has become a key shorthand for describing some of the important changes affecting daily life in all parts of the world. Adult educators and trainers are grappling with the impacts of changing social relations in the economic, political, social, cultural and environmental spheres. There is particular concern for the majority of people who are poor, live in rural areas or urban slums and are marginal to decision making in their societies. This book is a collection of critical reflections on adult education and training which have traditionally had strong demarcation lines between them. A wide range of education and training strategies in different sites of practice, including civil society organisations, the workplace, and state institutions, are explored in both theory and practice. Important examples are given of practices which are challenging the dominant relations where human capital is emphasised before human values.

Author : Lisa Breitschwerdt
Publisher : wbv Media GmbH & Company KG
ISBN 13 : 3763971335
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Comparative Research in Adult Education written by Lisa Breitschwerdt and published by wbv Media GmbH & Company KG. This book was released on 2023-06-22 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume presents research that emerges from the 9th international Adult Education Academy (2022), which brings together researchers, students and practitioners from around the world to share perspectives comparatively. More than 80 participants from almost 20 different countries have exchanged, compared and expanded their individual knowledge and experience on adult learning and education. This volume consisting of eight contributions (including one fundamental article beforehand) assumes that globalisation affects national, regional and local levels of adult learning and education. Transformational relations are observed and analysed through the lens of participation, sustainability and digitalisation. All contributions apply an international comparative research approach to empirically investigate these areas with their upcoming needs. This approach takes place under consideration of comparison as a research method which not only grounds on a long tradition and relies on a set of rules and techniques, but also on an inner attitude and sensitivity with which we look at the world and its global needs while trying to understand.

Author : Frank Youngman
Publisher : Zed Books
ISBN 13 : 9781856496766
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Political Economy of Adult Education and Development written by Frank Youngman and published by Zed Books. This book was released on 2000-06-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the formerly colonial world, the discourse of development has established an almost unquestioned intellectual and political dominance. Adult educators, their purposes and their programmes, are inevitably deeply shaped by this fact. Frank Youngman believes that adult educators need to have an understanding of the various different theories of development, and how different development strategies and biases impact on their own work. The purpose of his book is to provide a theory of applied political economy to explain the interface between society and adult education in developing countries. The author's own approach is broadly influenced by the Marxist tradition, but one that seeks to transcend many of the limitations and rigidities often prevalent in the past. He introduces adult educators to the main competing theories of development - the modernisation, dependency, neo-liberal and various alternative approaches. He then demonstrates the power of his analytical tools by examining a variety of specific issues affecting adult education. These include the impact of foreign aid, social inequalities (notably class, gender and ethnic inequalities), and the relationship between state and civil society in peripheral capitalist societies. The book draws on a wealth of empirical information and case studies from various parts of the world, but with particular attention to the country which the author knows best, Botswana. Its signal contribution is its elaboration of a theory of the political economy of adult education in the context of development and its demonstration of the applicability of this theoretical framework, including its usefulness in generating appropriate research agendas.

Author : Frank Youngman
Publisher : National Inst of Adult Continuing
ISBN 13 : 9781862010802
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Political Economy of Adult Education and Development written by Frank Youngman and published by National Inst of Adult Continuing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a theory of applied political economy to explain the interface between society and adult education in developing countries. This book analyzes specific issues which affect adult education: the impact of foreign aid; gender and ethnic inequalities; and the relationship between state and civil society in peripheral capitalist societies.

Author : Katy Newell Jones
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781900109208
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Global Perspectives in Adult Learning written by Katy Newell Jones and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: