Provides a broad overview of some of the major trends and issues shaping the theories, practices, research traditions, and politics of adult literacy in the US since the 1980s.
This book looks in detail at the strong contrasts in provision traditionally made for 'vocationally' and 'academically' minded students, and looks at ..
Following a range of individual students in various formal learning situations, this book explores how people’s lives shape their learning. Based on a..
This unique text provides a valuable route map to the development of thinking in adult education and lifelong learning and includes more than twenty-f..
This edited volume showcases the possibilities and challenges of the arts to adult education, whether practiced in community settings, university clas..
This book offers critical insights of the interplay between class, gender, education and violence and the contradiction, complexities and ambivalences..
This book examines the literacy practices of exemplary adult education teachers working within critical literacy frameworks. It provides an in-depth l..
The changing face of adult learning in the UK is the subject of this OU reader, reviewing the changes that have taken place and the extent to which in..
This reader critically examines the demographic, technological, economic and cultural challenges which have led to interest in the learning society an..
The authors provide a variety of perspectives on adult learning, drawing on sociology, psychology, adult education and applied research into how adult..
This book offers critical insights of the interplay between class, gender, education and violence and the contradiction, complexities and ambivalences..
Provides useful material for those teaching Pre-entry or foundation Maths in secondary schools and further education. This photocopiable resource is d..
Drawing on the experiences of a wide range of European countries, this book addresses major themes in the education of adults, such as participation, ..