Adult education and the postmodern challenge : learning beyond the limits

Adult education and the postmodern challenge : learning beyond the limits /

"Drawing on the new intellectual frameworks of postmodernism, critical pedagogy and feminism, and their impact upon educational theory, practice and research, the book focuses on the changing contexts of adult education. By building on the notion of going 'beyond the limits' of certai...

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Main Author: Usher, Robin, 1944-
Other Authors: Bryant, Ian, 1946-, Johnston, Rennie
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 1997.
Subjects:
Bürger, Christa > 1935- > Postmoderne.
Adult education > Social aspects.
Postmodernism and education.
Adult learning.
Continuing education.
Education, Continuing
Éducation des adultes > Aspect social.
Postmodernisme et éducation.
Apprentissage adulte.
Éducation permanente.
continuing education.
Erwachsenenbildung
Sozialer Wandel
Postmoderne
Volwasseneneducatie.
Postmodernisme.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Adult learning in postmodernity
  • 2. Adult learning for citizenship
  • 3. Governmentality and practice
  • 4. Disciplines and disciplinarity: knowledge and power
  • 5. Reconfiguring the 'other': self and experience in adult learning
  • 6. Reconceptualising theory and practice
  • 7. The reflective practitioner revisited
  • 8. Changing paradigms and traditions of research
  • 9. Overstepping the limits: new approaches to research
  • 10. Writing and learning about research.

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