Adult Education and the Postmodern Challenge: Learning Beyond the LimitsThis 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. |
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Adult Education and the Postmodern Challenge: Learning Beyond the Limits Robin Usher,Ian Bryant No preview available - 1997 |
Adult Education and the Postmodern Challenge: Learning Beyond the Limits Robin Usher,Ian Bryant,Rennie Johnston No preview available - 1997 |
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