The Palgrave International Handbook on Adult and Lifelong Education and Learning

by Marcella Milana (Editor), Sue Webb (Editor), John Holford (Editor), Richard Waller (Editor), Peter Jarvis (Editor)

Overview

This Handbook provides a wide-ranging frame of reference for researching adult and lifelong education and learning. With contributions from scores of established and newer scholars from six continents, the volume covers a diverse range of geopolitical and social territories across the world.

Drawing on the multiple  heritages that underpin research on education and learning in adulthood, this Handbook addresses the inner tensions between adult education, adult learning, lifelong education, and lifelong learning, by using current research and theorizations from disciplinary backgrounds, including philosophy, psychology, biology and neuroscience, anthropology, sociology, history, political science, and economics. It provides an explicit discussion of the differences and tensions between adult and lifelong education and learning, and locates these in different policy and historical contexts, theories and practices. It explores a variety of discipline-based theoretical perspectives, and highlights how these have influenced, and been influenced by, research in the education and learning of adults. The Handbook also explores the inevitable frictions and dilemmas these present, and carefully examines the role of the international dimension in researching education and learning in formal, non-formal and informal contexts, beyond traditional schooling.

This state-of-the-art, comprehensive Handbook is the first of its kind to explore adult education, lifelong education and lifelong learning fully as distinct activities on an international scale. It will be an indispensable reference resource for students of education at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, and for academic researchers, professionals and policy-makers concerned with adult and community education, further and vocational education, or work-based training and human resource development.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781137557827
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	10/11/2017
Edition description:	1st ed. 2018
Pages:	1061
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

Marcella Milana is Associate Professor at the University of Verona, Italy.

Sue Webb is Professor of Education at Monash University, Australia.

John Holford is Robert Peers Professor of Adult Education at the University of Nottingham, UK.

Richard Waller is Associate Professor of the Sociology of Education at the University of the West of England, Bristol, UK.

Peter Jarvis is Emeritus Professor of Continuing Education at the University of Surrey, UK.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Adult and Lifelong Education and Learning; Marcella Milana, Susan Webb, John Holford, Richard Waller & Peter Jarvis.- PART I:  THINKING AND RETHINKING THE FIELD.- Introduction: Thinking and Rethinking the Field; Marcella Milana, Susan Webb, John Holford, Richard Waller & Peter Jarvis.- THEORETICAL LANDSCAPES.- Contemporary Adult and Lifelong Education and Learning: An Epistemological Analysis; Richard G. Bagnall & Steven Hodge.- Exercising Clarity with Transformative Learning Theory; Chad Hoggan.- Critical Adult Education Theory: Traditions and Influence; Stephen Brookfield.- From Radical Adult Education to Social Movement Learning; John D. Holst.- Adult Learning and Communicative Rationality; Palle Rasmussen.- GENERATIVE PATHWAYS.- Adult Education and the ‘Learning’ Turn; Terri Seddon.- Limit Situations: Adult Education and Critical Awareness Raising; Danny Wildemeersch.- Revisiting Paulo Freire: Adult Education for Emancipation; Emilio Lucio-Villegas.- Learning and Experience: A Psycho-societal Approach; Henning Salling Olsen.- Complexity, Adult Biographies and Co-operative Transformation; Laura Formenti.- CONCEPTUAL SITES.- Economics and the Political Economy of Adult Education; Richard Desjardins.- The Critical Turn in Human Resources Development; Tonette S. Rocco, Sunny L. Munn & Joshua C. Collins.- Learning and Identity Development at Work; Alan Brown & Jenny Bimrose.- Lifelong Learning as an Emancipation Process: A Capability Approach; Pepka Boyadjieva & Petya Ilieva-Trichkova.- Knowledge Production as Organizational Learning in Danish Universities; Bente Elkjær.- PART II: SCALE AND MOVEMENT.- Introduction: Scale and Movement; Marcella Milana, Susan Webb, John Holford, Richard Waller & Peter Jarvis.- GLOBAL.- Assembling Literacy as Global: The Danger of a Single Story; Camilla Addey.- Conceptualizing Participation in Adult Learning and Education: Equity Issues; Kjell Rubenson.- Participation in Adult Literacy Programmes and Social Injustices; Lyn Tett.- Lifelong Learning Policy Discourses of International Organizations since 2000: A Kaleidoscope or Merely Fragments?; Moosung Lee & Shazia K. Jan.- Transformative Sustainability Education: From Sustainababble to a Civilization Leap; Elizabeth A. Lange.- Research Patterns in Comparative and Global Policy Studies on Adult Education; Marcella Milana.- REGIONAL.- Latin America: Adult and Popular Education in Dialogue; Danilo R. Streck & Cheron Zanini Moretti.- Europe: Comparing Lifelong Learning Systems; Éric Verdier.- The Mediterranean: Adult Education Landmarks; Peter Mayo.- The Southern African Development Community: Challenges and Prospects in Lifelong Learning; Idowu Biao & Tonic Maruatona.- NATIONAL.- Argentina: The Debate between Lifelong and Popular Education in Adult Education; Lidia Mercedes Rodriguez.- Ghana: The Life and Death of Adult Education and Implications for Current Policy; Michael Tagoe.- Palestine: Philosophical and Methodological Dilemmas for Adult Education; Rabab Tamish.- China: Adult Education and Learning Initiatives from Mao to Now; Roger Boshier.- Singapore: Trends and Directions in Lifelong Learning; Prem Kumar.- Timor-Leste: Adult Literacy, Popular Education and Post-Conflict Peace-Building; Robert Boughton.- TRANSIENCE.- Transnational Migration, Everyday Pedagogies and Cultural De-stabilization; Linda Morrice.- Researching Transnational Migration and Lifelong Learning; Shibao Guo.- Reconfiguring the Learning Space: Skilled Immigrants in Canada; Hongxia Shan.- Non-Permanent Workers and their Learning in a Developmental State; Sahara Sadik.- The Global Spread of the Nordic Folk High School Idea; Henrik Nordvall.- PART III: CONTEXTS, PEOPLE AND PRACTICES.- Introduction: Context, People and Practices; Marcella Milana, Susan Webb, John Holford, Richard Waller & Peter Jarvis.- ORGANISATIONS.- Adult Education Learned Societies: Professionalism and Publications; Susan Webb.- Adult Education Research: Publication Strategies and Collegial Recognition; Andreas Fejes & Erik Nylander.- Popular Universities: Their Hidden Functions and Contributions; Nelly P. Stromquist & Guillermo Lozano.- The Ideals and Practices of Citizenship in Nordic Study Circles; Annika Turunen.- South African University Engagement: Lifelong Learning and ‘Socially Robust’ Knowledge; Julia Preece.- LEARNERS.- Learning in Later Life: A Critical Perspective ; Brian Findsen.- Lifelong Learning for Older Adults: Culture and Confucianism; Siu Ling Maureen Tam.- Disabilities and Adult and Lifelong Education; Jovita M. Ross-Gordon.- Queering Transformative Learning: The Unfolding of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, and Ally Lives (LGBTQIA); Matthew E. Eichler & Racidon P. Bernarte.- TECHNOLOGIES, OBJECTS & ARTEFACTS.- Technologies for Adult and Lifelong Education; Seng Chee Tan.- The Mainstreaming of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs); Sarah Speight.- Lifelong Learning for Africa’s Older Adults: The Role of Open Educational Resources and Indigenous Learning; Rebecca Nthogo Lekoko & Keitseope Nthomang.- Popular Culture, Adult Learning and Identity Development; Robin Redmon Wright.- Popular Fictions as Critical Adult Education; Christine Jarvis.- Creativity, the Arts, and Transformative Learning; Patricia Gouthro.

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

“This is a timely book that helps situate our field in a world committed to 2015 Sustainable Development Goals. I commend the editors for providing a truly international collection of perspectives on adult education and learning. To their credit, they have given us a delightful mix of new and more senior voices in the field, from multiple nations, resulting in a rich and textured examination of key issues before us. This is very welcome edition.” (Leona M. English, Professor of Adult Education, St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada)

“The International Handbook on Adult and Lifelong Education and Learning is an unmissable reference for students and researchers interested in rethinking the field. The result of an ambitious collective endeavour, its innovative structure offers a variety of theoretical and conceptual approaches, new research insights, policy debates and the study of tensions at a range of analytical scales and geographies. It is a valuable scholarly piece of literature in the best tradition of adult education internationalism and criticism.” (Licínio C. Lima, Professor of Education, University of Minho, Portugal)

“This text is the go-to-handbook when it comes to making sense of international issues facing lifelong learning and adult education. It offers both a contemporary and interdisciplinary analysis that will provoke students to reflect deeply the about nature, purpose and meaning of the field.” (Edward W. Taylor, Professor of Lifelong Learning and Adult Education, Penn State University, USA)

“This important collection contributes a critical overview and analysis of the field of adult and lifelong education and learning. The book provides a range of disciplinary, theoretical and international perspectives, offering rich insights on a range of pertinent and urgent themes and issues of our times. The book invites the reader to engage in reconceptualisation and critique across different contexts and epistemologies, providing a much-needed space for stimulating our methodological, pedagogical and theoretical imaginations.” (Penny Jane Burke, Global Innovation Chair of Equity & Director, Centre of Excellence for Equity in Higher Education (CEEHE))