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The learning adult : building and reflecting on the work of Peter Jarvis / edited by John Holford, Marcella Milana, Richard Waller and Sue Webb

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London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2018.
Physical Description
xii, 259 pages : illustrations, portrait ; 25 cm
Additional Creators
Holford, John, Milana, Marcella, Waller, Richard (Sociologist), and Webb, Sue (Susan)

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Contents
Machine generated contents note: pt. 1 Understanding learning -- 1.Paradoxes of a Long Life Learning: an Exploration of Peter Jarvis's Contribution to Experiential Learning Theory / Martin Dyke -- 2.Peter Jarvis and the understanding of adult learning / Knud Illeris -- 3.The promise of lifelong learning / Patricia A. Gouthro -- 4.A critique of Peter Jarvis's conceptualisation of the lifelong learner in the contemporary cultural context / Richard G. Bagnall -- pt. 2 Learning & the meaning of life -- 5.(Critical) learning in/through everyday life in a global consumer culture / Jennifer A. Sandlin -- 6.Learning is an ontological process: Jarvis and theories of Christian Religious Education in dialogue / Alison Le Cornu -- 7.Opening spaces of conversation: citizen education for newcomers as a democratic practice / Danny Wildemeersch -- pt. 3 Adult education, citizenship & democracy and Note continued: 8.Resisting the enormous condescension of posterity: Richard Henry Tawney, Raymond Williams and the long struggle for a democratic education / Linden West -- 9.Decoding the neoliberal subjectivity in self-helping adult learners / Moosung Lee -- 10.International organisations and the construction of the learning active citizen: An analysis of adult learning policy documents from a Durkheimian perspective / Michael Schemmann -- pt. 4 Global & local -- 11.Wide horizons and blurred boundaries: comparative perspectives on adult and lifelong learning / Michael Crossley -- 12.Globalisation in Africa: reflecting on Peter Jarvis's superstructure and substructure model / Julia Preece -- 13.Chinese students speak about their favourite teachers and university reform / Roger Boshier -- 14.The rise and fall of life-wide learning for adults in England / Alan Tuckett.
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ISBN
1138545260
9781138545267
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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