1st Edition

Adult Education and the Postmodern Challenge Learning Beyond the Limits

By Ian Bryant, Rennie Johnston, Robin Usher Copyright 1997
268 Pages
by Routledge

264 Pages
by Routledge

264 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more
Introduction Chapter 1. Adult Learning in Postmodernity Chapter 2. Adult Learning for Citizenship Chapter 3. Governmentality and Practice Chapter 4. Disciplines and Disciplinarity: Knowledge and Power Chapter 5. Re-Configuring The 'Other': Self and Experience in Adult Learning Chapter 6. Reconceptualising Theory and Practice Chapter 7. The Reflective Practitioner Re-Visited Chpater 8. Changing Paradigms and Traditions of Research Chapter 9. Overstepping the Limits - New Approaches to Research Chapter 10. Writing and Learning About Research References

Biography

Ian Bryant, Rennie Johnston, Robin Usher