Adult and Continuing Education: Liberal adult education (part 2)Peter Jarvis, Colin Griffin Taylor & Francis, 2003 - 456 pages Depicting the ways that adult education has evolved as society has changed and how it has been incorporated into lifelong learning, this is a truly unique set that puts a stamp on an exciting field and important, far-reaching issues. These five volumes represent a great advance to scholars, as this is the first comprehensive overview of the field.The set draws on books, journals, reports and historical papers to map the vast field of education for adults. The writings included in the set have influenced the development of both the practice and the study of adult education from the Guilds to vocational education, distance learning and leisure learning. The collection also covers the recent emergence of corporations as new providers of education for adults with the corporate classroom, corporate universities and consultancies.A detailed index and new introduction by the editor will help the reader navigate this wealth of diverse material. |
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Contents
PART | 5 |
Step to the music | 21 |
Episodes and learning projects | 35 |
PART 2 | 53 |
The university extension function in the modern university | 80 |
Speech at Oxford Conference 1907 | 93 |
Excerpts from the Morrill Act 1862 and 1890 | 106 |
how the ten centers were conceived | 118 |
Aims of adult education | 205 |
Community education and community action | 219 |
Introduction to Part 5 | 239 |
Excerpts from Attacking Rural Poverty | 258 |
Introduction to Part 6 | 271 |
Women in the Workers Educational Association | 290 |
Peace education | 306 |
and teach every man to know his own | 319 |
PART 3 | 125 |
Introduction to Part 3 | 131 |
What is literacy? | 148 |
a dialogue | 157 |
meeting basic learning | 170 |
PART 4 | 179 |
Sociocultural animation | 192 |
training in group leadership | 199 |
Excerpt from Imprisoned in a Global Classroom | 339 |
Principles of a Marxist approach to adult education | 349 |
outlines of a transformative | 362 |
Introduction to Part 8 | 383 |
The ways of knowing | 406 |
Engaged pedagogy | 421 |
Common terms and phrases
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