ABSTRACT

This unique text provides a valuable route map to the development of thinking in adult education and lifelong learning. It includes more than twenty-five seminal articles from the first two decades of the International Journal of Lifelong Education, written by leading authors in the field from the UK, the USA, Australia and Europe.

Compiled to show the development of the field, the articles are divided into four sections:

From Ault Education…
…to Lifelong Education
…and Lifelong Learning
…to the Learning Society and Beyond.

The specially written Introduction by the editor contextualises the selection and introduces readers to the main issues and current thinking in the field. This is the only text of its kind to demonstrate practice and policy internationally over this period, and as the collection of articles are now available in one easy-access place, this is an excellent resource for students and scholars.

part |104 pages

From Adult Education…

chapter |11 pages

Deontological liberalism

The political philosophy of liberal adult education

chapter |21 pages

To a middle ground

Praxis and ideology in adult education

chapter |19 pages

Thematization of power, the search for common interests, and self-reflection

Towards a comprehensive concept of emancipatory education

chapter |13 pages

Against modernity

Gandhi and adult education

part |136 pages

… to lifelong education

chapter |19 pages

Lifelong education and adult education

The state of the theory

chapter |18 pages

Globalization and lifelong education

Reflection on some challenges for Africa

chapter |11 pages

Education and work

Preliminary thoughts on the encouragement of productive work in the educational process

chapter |25 pages

Beyond legitimacy

Facing the future in distance education

chapter |15 pages

Athene in academe

Women mentoring women in the academy

chapter |16 pages

Education for sale – at what cost?

Lifelong learning and the marketplace

part |88 pages

… and lifelong learning

chapter |11 pages

Adult education

A Sartrean-based perspective

chapter |16 pages

Being and becoming

A student trajectory

chapter |20 pages

The adulthood of buddhahood

Buddhism, lifelong learning and the education of desire

part |111 pages

… to the learning society and beyond

chapter |21 pages

Adult learning for citizenship

Towards a reconstruction of the social purpose tradition

chapter |11 pages

Beyond lifelong learning

A call to civically responsible change