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Separate But Equal?

Academic and Vocational Education Post-16

By Tony Edwards, Carol Fitz-Gibbon, Frank Hardman, Roy Haywood, Nick Meagher

This book looks in detail at the strong contrasts in the provision traditionally made for 'academically' and 'vocationally' minded students, and looks at differences and...

1997 | Paperback: 978-0-415-15298-3 (Routledge)

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Changing Places?

Flexibility, Lifelong Learning and a Learning Society

By Richard Edwards

Flexibility has become a central concept in much policy and academic debate. Individuals, organizations and societies are all required to become more flexible so that...

1997 | Paperback: 978-0-415-15340-9 (Routledge)

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Adult Education and the Postmodern Challenge

Learning Beyond the Limits

By Ian Bryant, Rennie Johnston, Robin Usher

This book offers some suggestions as to ways forward from this dilemma. Drawing on the new intellectual frameworks of critical pedagogy, feminism and postmodernism and...

1996 | Paperback: 978-0-415-12021-0 (Routledge)

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Working with Experience

Animating Learning

Edited by David Boud, Nod Miller

Everyday we are confronted with problems and challenges which we address by drawing on our experience and by using this experience to find ways of...

1996 | Paperback: 978-0-415-14246-5 (Routledge)

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Key Concepts in Adult Education and Training

By Malcolm Tight

As adults, we are all continually involved in learning, with increasing numbers of us engaged in more formalized forms of learning; that is, in education...

1996 | Hardback: 978-0-415-12833-9 (Routledge)

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Adult ESL/Literacy From the Community to the Community

A Guidebook for Participatory Literacy Training

By Elsa Auerbach, Byron Barahona, Julio Midy, Felipe Vaquerano, Ana Zambrano

Adult ESL/Literacy from the Community to the Community: A Guidebook for Participatory Literacy Training tells the story of a university-community collaboration to develop, implement, and...

1996 | Paperback: 978-0-8058-2267-0 (Routledge)

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Boundaries of Adult Learning

Edited by Richard Edwards, Ann Hanson, Peter Raggatt

Until relatively recently, adult learning in the UK was largely recognised as being situated mainly within the LEA adult education centre, university extra-mural departments and...

1995 | Paperback: 978-0-415-13614-3 (Routledge)

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The Learning Society: Challenges and Trends

Edited by Richard Edwards, Peter Raggatt, Nick Small

The 'learning society' is not a new idea, although its popularity has grown in recent years with the suggestion that lifelong learning is a condition...

1995 | Paperback: 978-0-415-13615-0 (Routledge)

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Adult Education and the State

Towards a Politics of Adult Education

By Peter Jarvis

Adult education has frequently assumed a political role in society and also has itself been regarded as a social movement. This book, however, is the...

1993 | Hardback: 978-0-415-06532-0 (Routledge)

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Disaffection And Diversity

Overcoming Barriers For Adult Learners

Edited by Judith Calder The Open University.

1993 | Paperback: 978-0-7507-0118-1 (Routledge)

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