Adult Education and the Postmodern Challenge
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,...
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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.
Introduction1Adult learning in postmodernity12Adult learning for citizenship283Governmentality and practice514Disciplines and disciplinarity: knowledge and power685Reconfiguring the 'other': self and experience in adult learning936Reconceptualising theory and practice1227The reflective practitioner revisited1428Changing paradigms and traditions of research1719Overstepping the limits: new approaches to research19110Writing and learning about research212References233Index242
