Adult Education and Lifelong Learning

Adult Education and the Formation of Citizens turns attention towards normative claims about who adults should become through education, and what capacities and skills adults need to develop to become included in society as ‘full’ citizens...

An Introduction to Career Learning and Development 11-19 is an indispensible source of support and guidance. It discusses key under-pinning theory and policies, and provides straight-forward, practical advice for student and practising professionals in the field of career education...

An Introduction to Career Learning and Development 11-19 is an indispensible source of support and guidance. It discusses key under-pinning theory and policies, and provides straight-forward, practical advice for student and practising professionals in the field of career education...

This book develops critical ways to engage with international debates about lifelong learning and social justice through a range of competing and contested definitions, setting out some of the complexities and challenges of linking the two concepts. It was originally published as a special issue of ..

Creativity and Learning in Later Life examines how processes such as ‘creativity’ and ‘inspiration’ are experienced by writers who engage with the visual arts, and questions how age is perceived in relation to these processes. The author’s careful analysis challenges many of the assumptions on which..

First published in 1970, this book considers the alleged distinction between ‘education for life’ and ‘education for work’ and exposes the fallacies on which this and other similar distinctions are based. It shows that ideas on this subject are inextricably intertwined with wider views on the nature..

First published in 1970, this book considers the alleged distinction between ‘education for life’ and ‘education for work’ and exposes the fallacies on which this and other similar distinctions are based. It shows that ideas on this subject are inextricably intertwined with wider views on the nature..

This book is based on a fieldwork intensive, EU funded project, aimed at sustaining the empowerment processes of career guidance practitioners by developing their awareness and use of their individual, organizational and networking resources. _x000D_ _x000D_ This book was originally published as a s..

This book examines how the process of becoming wise, and sharing wisdom, is integrally linked to older people’s wellbeing within their lifelong learning. Focusing upon a collaborative action research project, ‘Sagaciation’, chapters explore the involvement of older learners in the design and deliver..

This book examines how the process of becoming wise, and sharing wisdom, is integrally linked to older people’s wellbeing within their lifelong learning. Focusing upon a collaborative action research project, ‘Sagaciation’, chapters explore the involvement of older learners in the design and deliver..

_x005F_x000D_ Gender, Experience, and Knowledge in Adult Learning traces the emergence of the "experiential learner" as a particular kind of modernist entity, using feminist epistemology specifically, and the enlightenment critique more broadly to argue that, however inadvertently, much experiential..

This edited volume reflects on current debate around gender in education, where academics, practitioners and policy-makers are beginning to refer to a crisis of masculinity...