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Researching and transforming adult learning and communities : the local/global context

Evans, Rob, 1953- editor, Kurantowicz, Ewa editor, Lucio-Villegas, Emilio editor

Overview

Can adult education and learning be understood without reference to community and people’s daily lives? The response to be found in the chapters of this volume say emphatically no, they cannot. Adult learning can be best understood if we look at the social life of people in communities, and this book is an attempt to recover this view. 0The chapters of this volume reflect ongoing research in the field of adult education and learning in and with communities. At the same time the work of the authors presented here offers a very vital reflection of the work of the ESREA research network Between Local and Global – Adult Learning and Communities. The chapters showcase the broad range of professional practice, the variety in both methodology and theoretical background, as well as the impressive scope of field research experience the authors bring to bear in their papers. The first section provides the broad view of research into adult learning and community development emphasising how social movements are at the heart of local and global change and that they are critically important sources of power. The second section focuses in on the practice of educators/mediators working in local and regional contexts in which the tensions of the wider policy and discourse environment impact on adult learners. The third section privileges the view at the close level of research inside local communities in the field.

• Publisher: Sense Publishers
• Subject: Adult education European Union countries. / Occupational training European Union countries. / Vocational education European Union countries. / Adult education. / Occupational training. / Vocational education. / European Union countries.
• ISBN: 9789463003575, 9463003576, 9789463003568, 9463003568

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
LC5256.A2 R47 2016	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE