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Learning with Adults

A Reader

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  • © 2013

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Editors:
  1. Peter Mayo

    1. University of Malta, Malta

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  • Written by experts, Gives a modern approach, Comprehensive in Scope.

Part of the book series: International Issues in Adult Education (ADUL)

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Table of contents (28 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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    1. Introduction

      • Peter Mayo
      Pages 1-6

  3. Lifelong Learning and the Learning Society

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 7-7
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    2. Learning to Walk on Quicksand

      • Zygmunt Bauman
      Pages 9-18

    3. Youth and Adult Education and Lifelong Learning in Latin America and the Caribbean

      • Rosa Maria Torres
      Pages 19-31

    4. The Learning Society

      • D. W. Livingstone
      Pages 33-53

  4. Adult Learning, Difference and Identity

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 55-55
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    2. “We Must Believe in Ourselves”

      • Peter Rule, Tadi Ruth Modipa
      Pages 57-76

    3. Women, Sport and Adult Education

      • Cynthia Lee A. Pemberton, Eileen Casey White
      Pages 77-86

    4. Queering the Discourse

      • Robert Hill
      Pages 87-98

    5. Migration, Education, Gender

      • Ursula Apitzsch
      Pages 99-112

    6. Adult Education and European Identity

      • Oskar Negt
      Pages 113-130

    7. Anti-Colonial Subaltern Social Movement (SSM) Learning and Development Dispossession in India

      • Dip Kapoor
      Pages 131-150

  5. Sites and Instruments of Practice

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 151-151
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    2. ICTs and Adult Learning

      • Behrang Foroughi, Leona English
      Pages 153-160

    3. Radio as Public Pedagogy

      • Antonia Darder, Antonia Darder
      Pages 161-173

    4. Adult Education and Film/Television

      • Asoke Bhattacharya
      Pages 175-183

    5. Literacies, Narratives and Adult Learning in Libraries

      • Jim Elmborg
      Pages 185-194

    6. Community Development and the Arts

      • Mae Shaw, Rosie Meade
      Pages 195-204

    7. The Use of Aesthetic Experience in Unearthing Critical Thinking

      • Alexis Kokkos
      Pages 205-217
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About this book

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

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  • University of Malta, Malta

    Peter Mayo

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