Adult Learning, Critical Intelligence and Social Change - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Adult Learning, Critical Intelligence and Social Change write by National Institute of Adult Continuing Education (England and Wales). This book was released on 1995. Adult Learning, Critical Intelligence and Social Change available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What lies beyond the current preoccupation with education and its relationship to economic growth? Has the idea of community engagement in the mixed economy of welfare through a radical, critical form of participative learning disappeared, or is it re-emerging in a different form? Adult Learning, Critical Intelligence and Social Change offers a wide range of perspectives on these and other issues which have emerged since the 1980s. In the last 15 years, adult education has been subjected to restructuring around the promotion of market forces, moving away from the agenda of education for transformation towards a narrower agenda of meeting vocational needs. In the process, it has become demonstrably less neutral and more overtly controversial, more vital than ever in providing essential skills and knowledge and in developing alternative visions for democratic social change. This book reviews the context of these developments and focuses on contemporary debates in workplace and community based adult education and the impact of NVQs, competence based approaches and APL on women and ethnic minority communities.Individual essays illustrate critical and dynamic approaches to adult learning, providing examples of commitment and progressive perspectives in practice, in Britain and beyond. The book opens with a critical review of the context for these changes and of the theoretical debates which attempt to analyse and explain them. The chapters which follow offer specific challenges to postmodernism in relation to adult learning, and focus more generally on critical debates around culture and theory. Developments in trade union education, women's education and vocational education are considered in depth. Both as an expert overview of developments since 1980 and as a source of inspiration for a more progressive agenda, this collection will appeal to students and practitioners in all forms of adult education
Supporting Lifelong Learning: Organising learning
Supporting Lifelong Learning: Organising learning - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Supporting Lifelong Learning: Organising learning write by Roger Harrison. This book was released on 2002. Supporting Lifelong Learning: Organising learning available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book looks at what types of learning environments promote lifelong learning, how they can be organized to support meaningful learning and what the implications of these shifts are for managers.
Supporting Lifelong Learning
Supporting Lifelong Learning - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Supporting Lifelong Learning write by Julia Clarke. This book was released on 2001-11-22. Supporting Lifelong Learning available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This Open University Reader examines the practices of learning and teaching which have been developed to support lifelong learning, and the understanding and assumptions which underpin them. The selection of texts trace the widening scope of academic understanding of learning and teaching, and considers the implications for those who develop programmes of learning. It examines in great depth those theories which have had the greatest impact in the field, theories of reflection and learning from experience and theories of situated learning. The implications of these theories ar examined in relation to themes which run across the reader, namely, workplace learning, literacies, and the possibilities offered by information and communication technologies. The particular focus of this Reader is on the psychological or cognitive phenomena that happen in the minds of individual learners. The readings have been selected to represent a range of experience in different sectors of education from around the globe.
Radical Heroes
Radical Heroes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Radical Heroes write by Diana Coben. This book was released on 2013-10-08. Radical Heroes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. First Published in 1998. This book examines the ideas of two of the most controversial radical heroes of adult education, Antonio Gramsci and Paulo Freire, gauging their significance for the development of a radical politics of adult education in the post-Soviet, post-apartheid new world order. Gramsci offers a noble vision of the role of adult education in the creation of revolutionary Marxist hegemony; but the cause he lived and died for has all but collapsed. Nevertheless, his distinction between common sense and good sense, his theory of the intellectual and his concept of hegemony bear scrutiny today. In Freire's pedagogy of the oppressed, the relationship between leader and followed, teacher and student, is problematic and this book questions whether his pedagogy has the liberating potential he envisioned. The author considers and rejects the linkage of Gramsci's and Freire's ideas in the adult education literature. Nonetheless, Gramsci and Freire have huge symbolic importance as radical heroes in an under-theorized and marginalised field. The study highlights a problem with the radical hero phenomenon: when individuals become icons, their ideas cease to be open, and new insights do not emerge as challenge becomes inadmissible and debate dies. While neither Gramsci nor Freire can provide us with answers, Gramsci helps us address the difficult questions of purpose and content in the politics of adult education.
The Concepts and Practices of Lifelong Learning
The Concepts and Practices of Lifelong Learning - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Concepts and Practices of Lifelong Learning write by Brenda Morgan-Klein. This book was released on 2007-12-17. The Concepts and Practices of Lifelong Learning available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is a special edition of an established title widely used by colleges and universities throughout the world. This version focus on to apply the theory into practice. Implementing organizational change has emerged as a core competency for corporate executive. In fact, any leader today will discover just how vital leading change is. If you're not leading change, as the saying goes, you're not leading.
