This comprehensive introduction to adult education/postcompulsory education offers a broad overview of the field for students, adult educators, and workplace trainers. The book establishes an analytical framework to emphasize the nature of learning and examines the core knowledge and skills needed by adult educators.

Dimensions Of Adult Learning

Education & Teaching

Foley, Griff

Higher & Continuing Education

Open University Press

Dimensions of Adult Learning

This book seeks to increase our understanding of those non-educational contexts and informal circumstances in which people learn. Adult educators, Professor Foley argues, ought not to neglect the importance of the incidental learning which can take place, in particular, when people become involved in voluntary organisations, social struggles, and political activity of every kind. In developing the argument that such involvement can provide extraordinarily powerful learning opportunities, he uses case studies from the United States of America, Australia as well as Third World countries - Brazil and Zimbabwe - and embracing very diverse environmental, women's, worker and political struggles. He is particularly interested in how involvement in social action can help people to unlearn dominant, oppressive ideologies and discourses and learn instead oppositional, liberatory ones, even if such processes of emancipatory learning are inevitably complex and contradictory. He relates these processes of informal learning in contested contexts to current thinking in adult education and points the way to a somewhat different, and more radical, agenda in adult education theory and practice.For adult educators, community workers and others working with socially engaged citizens, the insights and lessons of this book ought to be especially useful as they try to develop their own practice in such contexts.

Learning in Social Action: A Contribution to Understanding Informal Education (Global Perspectives on Adult Education and Training)

Zed Books

This book seeks to increase our understanding of those non-educational contexts and informal circumstances in which people learn. Adult educators, Professor Foley argues, ought not to neglect the importance of the incidental learning which can take place, in particular, when people become involved in voluntary organisations, social struggles, and political activity of every kind. In developing the argument that such involvement can provide extraordinarily powerful learning opportunities, he uses case studies from the United States of America, Australia as well as Third World countries - Brazil and Zimbabwe - and embracing very diverse environmental, women's, worker and political struggles. He is particularly interested in how involvement in social action can help people to unlearn dominant, oppressive ideologies and discourses and learn instead oppositional, liberatory ones, even if such processes of emancipatory learning are inevitably complex and contradictory. He relates these processes of informal learning in contested contexts to current thinking in adult education and points the way to a somewhat different, and more radical, agenda in adult education theory and practice. For adult educators, community workers and others working with socially engaged citizens, the insights and lessons of this book ought to be especially useful as they try to develop their own practice in such contexts.

Learning in Social Action: A Contribution to Understanding Informal Education (Global perspectives on adult education & training)

Science & Math

National Institute of Adult Continuing Education

A landmark in writing on Australian adult education and training, this is the first book to offer a comprehensive coverage of the field.Understanding Adult Education and Training introduces readers to a wide range of theory and shows them how to relate the theory to their practice. Drawing on Australian and international experience, the book covers four major aspects of adult education and training: foundations of teaching and program management; contexts: policy, history and research; workplace learning including competency-based education; and different approaches to teaching and learning.Explaining the dynamic, complex and diverse nature of adult education practice, this book is essential reading for educators, trainers, community workers and other professionals involved in adult education.

Understanding Adult Education & Training

Paul & Co Pub Consortium

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Dimensions Of Adult Learning

Dimensions of Adult Learning

Learning in Social Action: A Contribution to Understanding Informal Education (Global Perspectives on Adult Education and Training)

Learning in Social Action: A Contribution to Understanding Informal Education (Global Perspectives on Adult Education and Training)

Learning in Social Action: A Contribution to Understanding Informal Education (Global perspectives on adult education & training)

Understanding Adult Education & Training