˜Theœ Palgrave international handbook on adult and lifelong education and learning

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. Front Matter ....Pages i-xvi Introduction to the Handbook (Marcella Milana, Sue Webb, John Holford, Richard Waller, Peter Jarvis)....Pages 1-8 Front Matter ....Pages 9-12 Contemporary Adult and Lifelong Education and Learning: An Epistemological Analysis (Richard G. Bagnall, Steven Hodge)....Pages 13-34 Exercising Clarity with Transformative Learning Theory (Chad Hoggan)....Pages 35-52 Critical Adult Education Theory: Traditions and Influence (Stephen Brookfield)....Pages 53-74 From Radical Adult Education to Social Movement Learning (John D. Holst)....Pages 75-92 Adult Learning and Communicative Rationality (Palle Rasmussen)....Pages 93-109 Adult Education and the ‘Learning’ Turn (Terri Seddon)....Pages 111-131 Limit Situations. Adult Education and Critical Awareness Raising (Danny Wildemeersch)....Pages 133-150 Revisiting Paulo Freire: Adult Education for Emancipation (Emilio Lucio-Villegas)....Pages 151-168 Learning and Experience: A Psycho-Societal Approach (Henning Salling Olesen)....Pages 169-189 Complexity, Adult Biographies and Co-operative Transformation (Laura Formenti)....Pages 191-209 Economics and the Political Economy of Adult Education (Richard Desjardins)....Pages 211-226 The Critical Turn in Human Resources Development (Tonette S. Rocco, Sunny L. Munn, Joshua C. Collins)....Pages 227-244 Learning and Identity Development at Work (Alan Brown, Jenny Bimrose)....Pages 245-265 Lifelong Learning as an Emancipation Process: A Capability Approach (Pepka Boyadjieva, Petya Ilieva-Trichkova)....Pages 267-288 Knowledge Production as Organisational Learning: The Case of Danish Universities (Bente Elkjaer)....Pages 289-308 Front Matter ....Pages 309-313 Assembling Literacy as Global: The Danger of a Single Story (Camilla Addey)....Pages 315-335 Conceptualizing Participation in Adult Learning and Education: Equity Issues (Kjell Rubenson)....Pages 337-357 Participation in Adult Literacy Programmes and Social Injustices (Lyn Tett)....Pages 359-374 Lifelong Learning Policy Discourses of International Organisations Since 2000: A Kaleidoscope or Merely Fragments? (Moosung Lee, Shazia K. Jan)....Pages 375-396 Transformative Sustainability Education: From Sustainababble to a Civilization Leap (Elizabeth A. Lange)....Pages 397-420 Research Patterns in Comparative and Global Policy Studies on Adult Education (Marcella Milana)....Pages 421-441 Latin America: Adult and Popular Education in Dialogue (Danilo R. Streck, Cheron Zanini Moretti)....Pages 443-459 Europe: Comparing Lifelong Learning Systems (Éric Verdier)....Pages 461-483 The Mediterranean: Adult Education Landmarks (Peter Mayo)....Pages 485-505 The Southern African Development Community: Challenges and Prospects in Lifelong Learning (Idowu Biao, Tonic Maruatona)....Pages 507-530 Argentina: The Debate Between Lifelong and Popular Education in Adult Education (Lidia Mercedes Rodríguez)....Pages 531-547 Ghana: The Life and Death of Adult Education and Implications for Current Policy (Michael A. Tagoe)....Pages 549-569 Palestine: Philosophical and Methodological Dilemmas for Adult Education (Rabab Tamish)....Pages 571-586 China: Adult Education and Learning from Mao to Now (Roger Boshier)....Pages 587-607 Singapore: Trends and Directions in Lifelong Learning (Prem Kumar)....Pages 609-627 Timor-Leste: Adult Literacy, Popular Education and Post-conflict Peacebuilding (Bob Boughton)....Pages 629-647 Transnational Migration, Everyday Pedagogies and Cultural Destabilization (Linda Morrice)....Pages 649-665 Researching Transnational Migration and Lifelong Learning (Shibao Guo)....Pages 667-686 Reconfiguring the Learning Space: Skilled Immigrants in Canada (Hongxia Shan)....Pages 687-706 Non-permanent Workers and Their Learning in a Developmental State (Sahara Sadik)....Pages 707-719 The Global Spread of the Nordic Folk High School Idea (Henrik Nordvall)....Pages 721-735 Front Matter ....Pages 737-740 Adult Education Learned Societies: Professionalism and Publications (Sue Webb)....Pages 741-759 Adult Education Research: Publication Strategies and Collegial Recognition (Andreas Fejes, Erik Nylander)....Pages 761-777 Popular Universities: Their Hidden Functions and Contributions (Nelly P. Stromquist, Guillermo Lozano)....Pages 779-796 The Ideals and Practices of Citizenship in Nordic Study Circles (Annika Pastuhov)....Pages 797-815 South African University Engagement: Lifelong Learning and ‘Socially Robust’ Knowledge (Julia Preece)....Pages 817-837 Learning in Later Adulthood: A Critical Perspective (Brian Findsen)....Pages 839-855 Lifelong Learning for Older Adults: Culture and Confucianism (Maureen Tam)....Pages 857-878 Disabilities and Adult and Lifelong Education (Jovita M. Ross-Gordon)....Pages 879-898 Queering Transformative Learning: The Unfolding of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, and Ally Lives (Matthew A. Eichler, Racidon P. Bernarte)....Pages 899-916 Technologies for Adult and Lifelong Education (Seng Chee Tan)....Pages 917-937 The Mainstreaming of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) (Sarah Speight)....Pages 939-956 Lifelong Learning for Africa’s Older Adults: The Role of Open Educational Resources and Indigenous Learning (Rebecca Nthogo Lekoko, Keitseope Nthomang)....Pages 957-970 Popular Culture, Adult Learning, and Identity Development (Robin Redmon Wright)....Pages 971-989 Popular Fictions as Critical Adult Education (Christine Jarvis)....Pages 991-1009 Creativity, the Arts, and Transformative Learning (Patricia Gouthro)....Pages 1011-1026 Back Matter ....Pages 1027-1061