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Critical Perspectives on Further Education and Training / edited by Camilla Fitzsimons and Jerry O'Neill.

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Fitzsimons, Camilla, editor.
O'Neill, Jerry, editor.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Adult education.
Continuing education--Ireland.
Continuing education.
Education, Higher.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (224 pages)
Edition:
First edition.
Place of Publication:
London, England : Anthem Press, [2024]
Summary:
This book is essential reading for educators, student teachers, policymakers, and anyone with an interest in critical viewpoints on adult, community, and further education. It offers a variety of outlooks that include educator identity, critical pedagogy, assessing learning, community education, global citizenship education, professional precarity, and more.
Contents:
Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
List of Figures and Tables
Acknowledgements
Preface: 'Done with Prefabs'
Introduction: Critical Perspectives on FET in Ireland
Chapter 1. Philosophical Foundations: Applying bell hooks' Engaged Pedagogy to FET Contexts
Chapter 2. Engaging Holistically with Curriculum and Assessment
Chapter 3. Why We Need to Talk about Race in Further Education and Training
Chapter 4. Neurodiversity and Inclusion in Further Education and Training
Chapter 5. Adult Learning in Groups: 'A Practice of Freedom'
Chapter 6. Towards Critical and Postcritical Global Education
Chapter 7. A Winter Sun: Creative Reflexivity as Practitioner Research
Chapter 8. Older than the Internet: Digital World Literacy and Adult Learning
Chapter 9. Towards a Grounded Practice: Community Education in Ireland Today
Chapter 10. Identity (Trans-)formation in Second-Career FET Teachers
Chapter 11. A Precarious Profession
'Afterwords': A Concluding Conversation
About the Authors
Bibliography
Index.
Notes:
Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
Description based on print version record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
1-83998-917-3
OCLC:
1420637205

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