ISBN:
9789462092273
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (X, 106 p, online resource)
Series Statement:
International Issues in adult Education
Series Statement:
Educational Research E-Books Online, Collection 2005-2017, ISBN: 9789004394001
Series Statement:
SpringerLink
Series Statement:
Bücher
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Political Sociology of Adult Education
DDC:
370.19
Keywords:
Adult education
;
Continuing education
;
Education
;
Education
;
Erwachsenenbildung
;
Politische Soziologie
Abstract:
Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- Reconceptualizing Lifelong Learning -- A Political Sociology of Adult Learning Education in the Twenty First Century -- Rationalities in Adult Learning Education -- Adult Learning Education and Civilization Crises -- Reinventing Adult Learning Education: Unleashing the Power, Reclaiming the Dream -- Adult Learning Education and Literacy as International Comparative Education -- Transformative Social Justice Learning as a New Lifelong Learning Paradigm: The Role of Critical Theory and Public Intellectuals -- Bibliography -- Afterword -- Praise for the Book-Back Jacket -- Index.
Abstract:
Critical Theorist Carlos Alberto Torres offers a political sociology of adult learning and education, based on Critical Social Theory and the always inspiring work of Paulo Freire. Empirically grounded and theoretically sophisticated, this new book follows the footsteps of his classic book published in the early nineties The Politics of Nonformal Education in Latin America . Torres's book offers comparative and international sociological analyses of adult learning and education, an area in which there is an obsession with ‘practice’ and an aversion to theory, with some notable and laudable exceptions, but which has the potential to provide avenues for social justice education in ways that no other systems and policies can. This book revitalizes social theory in education, and provides ample evidence of the power of adult learning and education, examining a variety of policy documents connected with the various adult education congresses promoted by the UNESCO, which are thoroughly scrutinized for what they bring to or omit from the policy agenda. In the context of new developments in adult learning and education, particularly the impact of multiple globalizations, neoliberalism, and the new role of international organizations in reconceptualizing lifelong learning, new evidence-based research, new narratives, and the vibrancy of social movements striving for a new and possible world, it is clear that new theoretical designs were needed making this is a must-read book
Description / Table of Contents:
Political Sociology of Adult Education; TABLE OF CONTENTS; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; THE BRAZILIAN 'EFFECT'; THIS BOOK; NOTES; CHAPTER I:RECONCEPTUALIZING LIFELONG LEARNING; NOTES; CHAPTER II:A POLITICAL SOCIOLOGY OF ADULT LEARNING EDUCATION IN THE TWENTY FIRST CENTURY; MAPPING KEY CONCEPTS: GLOBALIZATION, THE LEARNING SOCIETY,THE KNOWLEDGE-BASED SOCIETY AND THE NETWORK SOCIETY; Adult Learning Education Paradigms; The Transformative Power of Adult Learning Education; NEOLIBERALISM, THE NATION-STATE, AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS:LESSONS FROM LATIN AMERICA6
Description / Table of Contents:
ADULT LEARNING EDUCATION: MODELS AND RATIONALITIESAS THEORETICAL CONSTRUCTSModels and Rationalities of Adult Learning Education; NOTES; CHAPTER III:RATIONALITIES IN ADULT LEARNING EDUCATION; Constitutional Mandates; Human Capital Investment; Political Socialization; Compensatory Legitimation; International Pressures; Social Movements; Instrumental Rationality and Policymaking; NEOLIBERAL GLOBALIZATION AND COLLECTIVE OPPOSITION: POTENTIALIMPACTS ON ADULT LEARNING EDUCATION; ADULT LEARNING EDUCATION: WHAT IS TO BE DONE?; NOTES; CHAPTER IV:ADULT LEARNING EDUCATION AND CIVILIZATION CRISES
Description / Table of Contents:
A Scenario of Crises: Crisis is OpportunityNOTES; CHAPTER V:REINVENTING ADULT LEARNING EDUCATION: UNLEASHING THE POWER, RECLAIMING THE DREAM; Unleashing the Power of Adult Learning Education; RETHINKING, UN-THINKING, AND REINVENTING ADULT LEARNINGEDUCATION FOR EMANCIPATION AND EMPOWERMENT; 1. For a New Epistemology: Adult Learning Education asa Critique of Obscurantism; 2. Adult Learning Education in Support of an Alternative Globalization:Planetarization; 3. Adult Learning Education in Support of Eco-pedagogy5
Description / Table of Contents:
4. Adult Learning Education in Support of an Education for Social JusticeChallenging the Principles of Neoliberalism5. Adult Learning Education in Support of a Multicultural andCosmopolitan Citizenship; 6. Adult Learning Education in Support of Radical Education and Democracy; 7. Adult Learning Education in Support of Transecting, Transdisciplinary,and Connective Models of Knowledge; 8. Adult Learning Education in Support of a Perspective Transformation; NOTES; CHAPTER VI:ADULT LEARNING EDUCATION AND LITERACY AS INTERNATIONAL COMPARATIVE EDUCATION; The Special Case of Adult Literacy; NOTES
Description / Table of Contents:
CHAPTER VII:TRANSFORMATIVE SOCIAL JUSTICE LEARNING AS A NEW LIFELONG LEARNING PARADIGM: THE ROLE OF CRITICAL THEORY AND PUBLIC INTELLECTUALSThe Role of Public Intellectuals and Adult Learning Education; NOTE; BIBLIOGRAPHY; AFTERWORD; Education vs. Learning: Redefining the Object of Policy, Scholarship,and Practice; THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL TOOLS TO RESEARCH 'GLOBAL'ADULT EDUCATION POLICY; Public Policy and Values Permeability; A Strategic-Relational Approach to the State and Agents' Positionalities; Policy Sociology, the Anthropology of Policy and the Re-Bordering of theResearch Field
Description / Table of Contents:
To Conclude
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
DOI:
10.1007/978-94-6209-227-3
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