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Jossey-Bass Reader on Contemporary Issues in Adult Education

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ISBN-10: 0470873566

ISBN-13: 9780470873564

Edition: 2011

Authors: Sharan B. Merriam, Andr� P. Grace, Andr� P. Grace

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This essential resource is compiled by experts in the field and contains the best, most recent previously published literature on the contemporary issues and includes trends affecting adult education. Compelling to practitioners in the field as well as useful in foundations or introductory courses on adult education, it covers topics such as social justice; diversity and marginalization; human resource development; lifelong learning; globalization; the role of mass media and popular culture; technology; and heath, welfare, and environment, all within the context of adult education.
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Book details

List price: $36.99
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Limited
Publication date: 4/27/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 512
Size: 6.90" wide x 9.80" long x 1.20" tall
Weight: 2.090
Language: English

Sources
Preface
The Editors
About the Contributors
Defining a Field of Practice: The Foundations of Adult Education
For Those Who Need to Be Learners
The Negro in America
Pedagogy of the Oppressed: Chapter 2
Building a Knowledge Base in U.S. Academic Adult Education (1945-1970)
Adult Education at the Margins: A Literature Review
African Americans in Adult Education: The Harlem Renaissance Revisited
Ethical Issues and Codes of Ethics: Views of Adult Education Practitioners in Canada and the United States
Positioning Adult Education in a Global Context
Rediscovering Adult Education in a World of Lifelong Learning
Research and Policy in Lifelong Learning
Social Movements, Class, and Adult Education
Social Change Education: Context Matters
Adult Education and the Empowerment of the Individual in a Global Society
Active and Inclusive Citizenship for Women: Democratic Considerations for Fostering Lifelong Education
Adult Education's Constituencies and Program Areas: Competing Interests?
Social Class and Adult Education
Poverty Reduction and Adult Education: Beyond Basic Education
Aligning Health Promotion and Adult Education for Healthier Communities
Critiquing Human Resource Development's Dominant Masculine Rationality and Evaluating Its Impact
Organizational Learning Communities and the Dark Side of the Learning Organization
Negotiating Democratically for Educational and Political Outcomes
The Changing Landscape of Adult Learning
Reflection Disempowered
A Theory in Progress
�Social Learning� for/in Adult Education?: A Discursive Review of What It Means for Learning to Be �Social�
The Meaning and Role of Emotions in Adult Learning
Adult Education and the Mass Media in the Age of Globalization
Non-Western Perspectives on Learning and Knowing
New Discourses Shaping Contemporary Adult Education
Attending to the Theoretical Landscape in Adult Education
Popular Culture, Cultural Resistance, and Anticonsumption Activism: An Exploration of Culture Jamming as Critical Adult Education
Toward a Postmodern Pedagogy
Activism as Practice: Some Queer Considerations
Using Freirean Pedagogy of Just Ire to Inform Critical Social Learning in Arts-Informed Community Education for Sexual Minorities
Name Index
Subject Index