Adult Education and the Postmodern Challenge - Learning Beyond the Limits

Informationen zum Autor Ian Bryant, Rennie Johnston, Robin Usher Klappentext This book offers some suggestions as to ways forward from this dilemma. Drawing on the new intellectual frameworks of critical pedagogy, feminism and postmodernism 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 certain current adult education orthodoxies, the authors try to provide alternatives for practice. The final three chapters deal with research, focusing on a critical macro-analysis of mainstream paradigms, a review of alternative approaches, and a more micro-analysis centering on the role of the socially-located self in the research process. Zusammenfassung This book focuses on the changing contexts of adult education by drawing on the new intellectual frameworks of critical pedagogy, feminism and postmodernism and their impact upon educational theory, practice and research. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Chapter 1. Adult Learning in Postmodernity Chapter 2. Adult Learning for Citizenship Chapter 3. Governmentality and Practice Chapter 4. Disciplines and Disciplinarity: Knowledge and Power Chapter 5. Re-Configuring The 'Other': Self and Experience in Adult Learning Chapter 6. Reconceptualising Theory and Practice Chapter 7. The Reflective Practitioner Re-Visited Chpater 8. Changing Paradigms and Traditions of Research Chapter 9. Overstepping the Limits - New Approaches to Research Chapter 10. Writing and Learning About Research References

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• Authors: Ian Bryant, Ian Johnston Bryant, Bryant Ian, Rennie Johnston, Rennie (University of Southampton) Johnston, Johnston Rennie, Robin Usher, Robin (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University Usher, Robin Bryant Usher, USHER ROBIN BRYANT IAN JOHNSTON
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.12.1996
• EAN: 9780415120203
• ISBN: 978-0-415-12020-3
• No. of pages: 264
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; EDUCATION / General, Cultural Studies, EDUCATION / Adult & Continuing Education, EDUCATION / Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Philosophy and theory of education, Adult education, continuous learning