Adult education as theory, practice, and research: The captive triangle (Radical forum on adult education series)

Examines the reasons for the lack of growth in adult education as a field of practice and puts forward more productive ways of considering the relationships between theory, research and practice. This book should be of interest to students and teachers of adult education, programme organizers, curriculum developers, researchers.

Adult Education As Theory, Practice, and Research: The Captive Triangle (Radical Forum on Adult Education Series)

Usher, Robin

Bryant, Ian

Routledge& Kegan Paul

Adult Education and the Postmodern Challenge: Learning Beyond the Limits

This book offers some suggestions as to ways forward from this dilemma. Drawing on the new intellectual frameworks of critical pedagogy, feminism and postmodernism and their impact upon educational theory, practice and research, the book focuses on the changing contexts of adult education. By building on the notion of going beyond the limits of certain current adult education orthodoxies, the authors try to provide alternatives for practice. The final three chapters deal with research, focusing on a critical macro-analysis of mainstream paradigms, a review of alternative approaches, and a more micro-analysis centering on the role of the socially-located self in the research process.

Education & Teaching

Johnston, Rennie

Higher & Continuing Education

Routledge

This book offers some suggestions as to ways forward from this dilemma. Drawing on the new intellectual frameworks of critical pedagogy, feminism and postmodernism and their impact upon educational theory, practice and research, the book focuses on the changing contexts of adult education. By building on the notion of going beyond the limits of certain current adult education orthodoxies, the authors try to provide alternatives for practice. The final three chapters deal with research, focusing on a critical macro-analysis of mainstream paradigms, a review of alternative approaches, and a more micro-analysis centering on the role of the socially-located self in the research process.

Adult Education as Theory, Practice and Research

The authors argue that the aim of research should be to improve practice through a process of critical reflection. Focusing clearly on the everyday concerns and problems of practitioners, they emphasize the importance of practical knowledge. Their definition of ‘practice’ is wide, and includes the generation of theory and the doing of research as well as front-line teaching. They show how notions of ‘adult learning’ and ‘the adult learner’ have been constituted mainly through theory and research in psychology and sociology, and examine action research as a mode of understanding. They conclude by looking at the curriculum implications for the teaching of adult education as reflective practice.

Adult Education as Theory, Practice and Research: The Captive Triangle

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Adult Education As Theory, Practice, and Research: The Captive Triangle (Radical Forum on Adult Education Series)

Adult Education and the Postmodern Challenge: Learning Beyond the Limits

Adult Education and the Postmodern Challenge: Learning Beyond the Limits

Adult Education as Theory, Practice and Research: The Captive Triangle

Adult Education and the Postmodern Challenge: Learning Beyond the Limits