Learning with adults: a critical pedagogical introduction

This book is written at a time when our own field of adult education is under assault from a variety of capitalist and neoconservative forces pressuring us ... to turn away from the causes of criticality, lifelong learning, and education for freedom. Rather than succumb to these pressures, we have h...

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Main Authors: English, Leona M. (Author), Mayo, Peter 1955- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Rotterdam [u.a.] Sense Publishers 2012
Series:International Issues in Adult Education 8
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Online Access:DE-473
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Summary:This book is written at a time when our own field of adult education is under assault from a variety of capitalist and neoconservative forces pressuring us ... to turn away from the causes of criticality, lifelong learning, and education for freedom. Rather than succumb to these pressures, we have hope that our long term goals of education for life and living can and will be accomplished alongside professional and vocational education. This book offers new insight into what is a very dark moment of our human civilization. From the preface by Dr Carlos Alberto Torres, Professor, GSEIS, Director
Item Description:sect. 1. Contextualising adult education -- sect. 2. Contemporary theoretical perspectives on adult education -- sect. 3. Contexts of practice in adult education -- sect. 4. Concerns in the practice of adult education
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (276 S.)
ISBN:9789460917684
DOI:10.1007/978-94-6091-768-4