Beyond Fragments Adults, Motivation and Higher Eduaction
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Adults now constitute the majority of students in higher education; what they bring to it, want and need are important questions in the development of a more responsive higher education. The author discusses The Relationship Between Motives, Education, And Life History To Explore how culture and history shape people and their motives for learning, taking into account variations in gender, social background and ethnicity, challenging the orthodox view that non-traditional students enter higher educational for vocational/material reasons. Booknews Develops a cultural psychology of adult learning incorporating object relations and sociological, cultural, and feminist theory, drawing on in-depth biographical research with individual adult students in higher education from various backgrounds. Students' stories and their experiences of oppressive conditions and negative cultural scripting demonstrate the importance of higher education as a space in which to experiment with the creation of new identities. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
PrefaceAcknowledgmentsCh. 1Thinking of Fragments1Ch. 2Self, Method and Imaginative Empathy17Ch. 3On Becoming a Solicitor: the Problem of Stated Reasons33Ch. 4Telling Stories: Brenda and Paul47Ch. 5Men Talking on the Medway72Ch. 6Men Talking: Thanet and the Poetic Object of Fishing95Ch. 7Partners in Change115Ch. 8Women in Professional and Personal Fragments132Ch. 9Border Country149Ch. 10East and West167Ch. 11Red Pens and Relationships: Retrospect and Prospects in Higher Education187Ch. 12Beyond Fragments?206AppendixThe Ethical Code/Conditions of Use Form219References222Index229
