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Adults in Formal Education – Policies and Practices in Europe
The document focuses on the opportunities for under-qualified adults to complete basic education or achieve an upper secondary qualification, and it also covers measures that might contribute to widening access to higher education for adults returning to the formal education … Continue reading
In and Against the State – Gramsci, War of Position, and Adult Education
Read This paper focuses on the way a state-funded university, as an important institution of civil society, consolidates existing hegemonic arrangements and, at the same time, offers spaces wherein these arrangements can be contested. Using ethnographic data culled from structured … Continue reading
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Gramsci, Freire, and adult education: possibilities for transformative action
This book focuses on two of the most cited figures in the debate on radical education, Antonio Gramsci and Paulo Freire. Both regarded forms of adult education as having an important role to play in the struggle for liberation from … Continue reading
A democracy we can eat: a livelihoods approach to TVET policy and provision
In Southern Africa, theories of adult education have remained modelled on imported paradigms. The urgency of particularly the first of the Millennium Development Goals, ‘to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger’ generally translates into policy and provision of skills training based … Continue reading
Riding the lines of flight – Lifelong learning as a rhizome requires rhizomatic research
Thinking about the future of educational research requires a conceptual resource that is itself both imaginative and multiple and at the same time articulates a world with those self-same characteristics. This is provided by the work of Deleuze and Guattari. … Continue reading
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Education for the People – Concepts of Grundtvig, Tagore, Gandhi and Freire
A very long distance lies between the State of Bengal, India and Denmark. Similarly, Brazil and India are separated by two oceans and the African continent. Accordingly, it seems a daring enterprise to embark upon a project which aims to … Continue reading
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Citizenship as Politics – International Perspectives From Adult Education
Citizenship is a contested terrain, very much linked to issues of power. The more progressive literature associates it with contributions made by individuals and groups/movements to the democratic public sphere. This entails an engagement in the ongoing struggle to safeguard … Continue reading
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