‘This is a fascinating and rich volume. Its chapters explore too-often-ignored perspectives on, and areas of, adult education, from spirituality to visual arts, and from refugees to homelessness. They bring out the potentially paradigm-shifting role adult learning and education can have as a catalyst in society, politics and people’s lives.’

- John Holford, University of Nottingham, UK,

‘The Research Handbook on Adult Learning and Education is a rich resource for thinking and acting critically and differently. It offers a fresh, radical and important addition to existing literature in the field. Do read it, share with others and weave together theory and practice to foster and build resources for hope.’

- Iain Jones, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, UK,

‘Based on critical dialogues around the many facets of adults’ learning experiences, this book unconventionally highlights ways to rethink emancipatory adult education in the contemporary world. Professionals engaged with adults’ education and learning in various settings should read this book. They will find countless sources of inspiration to make education accessible and empowering for all.’

- Marcella Milana, University of Verona, Italy,

This innovative Research Handbook rethinks current paradigms in adult education, providing a toolkit for responding to the challenges and opportunities for adult education and lifelong learning amidst a changing world. Contributing authors analyse key aspects of the field through the lenses of democracy, sustainability, and social justice.Adopting a non-traditional discourse approach, international practitioners and scholars collaboratively analyse relevant issues within the field, such as adult education for indigenous people, pedagogy, inclusion and the history of lifelong learning. They critically examine the global status quo of adult learning, reflecting on the purpose of education as well as the tensions that can arise in different contexts. Chapters present original research paired with empirical accounts of teaching initiatives from the Global North and South. Incorporating a range of theoretical and empirical perspectives, the Research Handbook engages with the diversity of adult learning and education, both formal and informal.The Research Handbook on Adult Learning and Education is a thought-provoking read for students and scholars of education, university management, education policy, curriculum and pedagogy. Its practical and inspiring insights also make it a crucial resource for adult learning practitioners and policymakers.
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This innovative Research Handbook rethinks current paradigms in adult education, providing a toolkit for responding to the challenges and opportunities for adult education and lifelong learning amidst a changing world. Contributing authors analyse key aspects of the field through the lenses of democracy, sustainability, and social justice.
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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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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781800886650
Publisert
2025-03-28
Utgiver
Vendor
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Høyde
244 mm
Bredde
169 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
258

Biographical note

Edited by Nalita James, Centre for Lifelong Learning, University of Warwick, Kevin Orr, Visiting Professor, Huddersfield Centre for Research in Education and Society (HudCRES), the University of Huddersfield and Sharon Clancy, School of Education, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Nottingham, UK