Learning with Adults : A Reader / by Peter Mayo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mayo, Peter, Author.

Series:

International Issues in Adult Education

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education.

Local Subjects:

Education.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (404 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2013.

Place of Publication:

Rotterdam : SensePublishers : Imprint: SensePublishers, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This anthology brings together some of the finest writers on different aspects of adult education and related areas to provide a complementary reader to the introductory text by Leona English and Peter Mayo Learning with Adults: A Critical Introduction. Areas tackled include Disability, Prisons, Third Age Universities, Lifelong Learning Policy, Learning Society, Poverty, LGBTQ, Sport, Women, Literacy, Transformative Learning, Community Arts, Aesthetics, Consumption, Migration, Libraries, Folk High Schools, Adult Education Policy, Subaltern Southern Social Movements, Social Creation, Community Radio, Social Film. Contexts focused on include Africa, Caribbean, Europe, Latin America, Asia (India), small island states. Over thirty authors involved including Zygmunt Bauman, Rosa Maria Torres, Oskar Negt, Antonia Darder, Jim Elmborg, D. W. Livingstone, Palle Rasmussen, Mae Shaw, Leona English, Asoke Bhattacharya, Cynthia L. Pemberton, Eileen Casey White, Daniel Schugurensky, Dip Kapoor, Peter Rule, John Myers, Joseph Giordmaina, Antonia De Vita, Alexis Kokkos, Marvin Formosa, Carmel Borg, Julia Preece, Patricia Cranton, Lyn Tett, Ali A. Abdi, Anna Maria Piussi, Behrang Foroughi, Taadi Ruth Modipa, Robert Hill, Edward Shiza, Kaela Jubas and Didacus Jules. … Learning with Adults: A Reader constitutes the most valuable practical and theoretical reflection on adult education I have seen in a long time. Nelly P. Stromquist, Professor, International Education Policy, College of Education University of Maryland, College Park … This book provides an opportunity at a very appropriate moment to discuss adult education issues during challenging times. Paula Guimarães, University of Lisbon … Read and savour delights and surprises. Michael Welton, UBC and Athabasca University This book satisfies everything one could desire of a reader on the subject. Kenneth Wain, University of Malta.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / Peter Mayo

Introduction: The Multivaried Nature of Adult Education Provision and Learning / Peter Mayo

Learning to Walk on Quicksand: Lifelong Learning and Liquid Life / Zygmunt Bauman

Youth and Adult Education and Lifelong Learning in Latin America and the Caribbean / Rosa Maria Torres

The Learning Society: Past, Present and Future Views / D. W. Livingstone

“We Must Believe in Ourselves”: Attitudes and Experiences of Adult Learners with Disabilities in Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa / Peter Rule and Tadi Ruth Modipa

Women, Sport and Adult Education: Shortchanging Women and Girls / Cynthia Lee A. Pemberton and Eileen Casey White

Queering the Discourse: International Adult Learning and Education / Robert Hill

Migration, Education, Gender / Ursula Apitzsch

Adult Education and European Identity / Oskar Negt

Anti-colonial Subaltern Social Movement (SSM) Learning and Development Dispossession in India / Dip Kapoor

ICTs and Adult Learning / Behrang Foroughi and Leona English

Radio as Public Pedagogy: A Critical Adult Education of the Airwaves / Antonia Darder

Adult Education and Film/Television / Asoke Bhattacharya

Literacies, Narratives and Adult Learning in Libraries / Jim Elmborg

Community Development and the Arts: Towards a More Creative Reciprocity / Mae Shaw and Rosie Meade

The Use of Aesthetic Experience in Unearthing Critical Thinking / Alexis Kokkos

The Folk High School: Denmark’s Contribution to Adult Education / Palle Rasmussen

Four Decades of Universities of the Third Age: Past, present, Future / Marvin Formosa

The European Agenda for Education in Prison / Joseph Giordmaina

Transformative Learning / Patricia Cranton

Adult Literacies / Lyn Tett

Learning (Through) Consumption: Shopping as a Site of Adult Education / Kaela Jubas

Social Creation / Antonia de Vita and Anna Maria Piussi

Adult Education and Poverty Reduction / Julia Preece

Cinderella and the Search for the Missing Shoe: 1990s Latin American Adult Education Policy and Practice / Daniel Schugurensky and John P. Myers

Adult Citizenship Education and Political Engagement in Sub-Saharan Africa: Critical Analysis / Edward Shizha and Ali A. Abdi

Adult Education policy in Micro-States: The Case of the Caribbean / Didacus Jules

Globalisation, Southern Europe and European Adult Education Policy / Carmel Borg and Peter Mayo

Name Index / Peter Mayo

Subject Index / Peter Mayo.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9789462093355

9462093350

OCLC:

904403676