Contents
Introduction to the Research Handbook on Adult Learning and Education 1
Sharon Clancy, Nalita James and Kevin Orr
PART I PURPOSES OF ADULT EDUCATION
1 Critical pedagogy: what makes it happen? Research using an
innovative, positive lens bricolage 10
Paula McElearney
2 Adults, digital exclusion and media literacy: moving beyond skill solutions 26
Richard Sanders
3 Towards effective continuing education and training provisions: the
case of Singapore 42
Anthony Leow, Anh Hai Le and Stephen Billett
4 Supporting learners in the Black community and learners with lived and
living experiences of homelessness through adult and lifelong education 56
Tanya Matthews and Jayne Malenfant
5 The ESOL Manifesto: activist professionalism in a sector under attack 64
Rob Peutrell
6 Adult education: learning to do, or learning to be? 72
Nicola Robertson and Vijayita Prajapati
7 Adult education and spirituality 82
Cheryl Hunt
8 Unlearning embodied separation of humans from the more-than-human world 95
Shirley Walters and Sharon Clancy
9 Green Changemakers: a paradigm shift in vocational education 101
Juliet Atuguba, Helen Cresswell, Lou Mycroft, Dawood Sadiq and Jenny Willis
10 The personal curriculum: the developmental pathways of experiences
across working life 113
Stephen Billett
PART II SETTINGS FOR ADULT EDUCATION
11 Using Bourdieu to understand (non-)participation in university higher
education throughout the lifecourse 127
Wayne Bailey and Kate Lavender
12 Community, university, and democracy in Ireland and the UK: a dialogue 141
Sharon Clancy and Thomas Murray
13 ‘Spaces where my thoughts have power’ – engaging with communities
using transformative pedagogy: universities and radical adult education 151
Fiona Chapel
14 Feminist adult education in museums: curating critique and possibility 164
Darlene Clover
15 Engaging the ‘wounded’ adult learner: lessons learnt from critically
reflective, community-based, visual arts practice 179
Nic Dickson
PART III TENSIONS AND COMPROMISES BETWEEN CAPITAL
AND RADICAL EDUCATION
16 Exploring community gardens as critical and complicated sites for adult
education 192
Mitchell McLarnon
17 Practitioner identity and practitioner networks in the field of adult
literacy in Canada: a dialogue 202
Stacey Crooks, Paula Elias and Annie Luk
19 Adult education as a process of research and critical public pedagogy:
knowledge co-production alongside refugees in the UK asylum system 211
John Grayson
19 Putting glitter on the shit: working in-against-and-beyond adult
education in Scotland 225
Sarah Galloway, Sarah McEwan, John Player, Helen Reid, Michael Harris
and Derek Keenan
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