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Adult Education and the State Towards a Politics of Adult Education
By Peter Jarvis
Copyright 1993
174 Pages
by
Routledge
176 Pages
by
Routledge
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Adult education has frequently assumed a political role in society and also has itself been regarded as a social movement. This book, however, is the first systematic attempt to analyse it from the perspective of political theory. The author locates the education of adults within current political theory - something which has become even more relevant since the Conservative government of the UK... Read more
Preface 1.The Education of Adults and Civil Society 2.Theories of the State and Adult Education 3.State Policy, Justice and Adult Education 4.The Bureaucratic State 5.Adult Learning, Education and Demoncratic Citizenship 6.The People's Rights 7.Interests 8.A Civilised Society 9.Adult Education and Utopian Thought
Biography
Peter Jarvis
