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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
Beyond OER – Shifting Focus from Resources to Practices – The OPAL Report 2011
Read This study presents the findings of a quantitative study on the use of Open Educational Resources (OER) and Open Educational Practices (OEP) in Higher Education and Adult Learning Institutions. The study is based on the results of an online … Continue reading
Posted in Adult learning, Higher education, OEP, OER, Open education, Open learning
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Rhizoactivity – Toward a Postmodern Theory of Lifelong Learning
Read Although the loss of certainty in the age of postmodernism is questioning knowledge production in general, the emerging discourse of lifelong learning demands a different theory of adult learning in particular. This article aims to offer a conceptual tool … Continue reading
Creating Learning – A Korean Drummer’s Lifelong Quest to be the Best
Read In this article, the author interrogates how one famous Korean traditional drummer Mr. Myong-hwan Kim’s lifelong learning is affected by the sociocultural and historical context as it contributes to the construction of his life. This article analyzed an oral … Continue reading
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Women’s ways of knowing: the development of self, voice, and mind
Read Drawn from the voices of women of varied backgrounds, Women’s Ways of Knowing reveals the unique perspectives from which women view reality and draw conclusions about truth, knowledge, and authority. An intellectual and political Our Bodies, Ourselves, this book … Continue reading
Posted in Adult development, Adult learning, Gender, Knowing, Learning, Women
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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
Posted in Adult education, Adult learning, Complexity & learning, Deleuze, Guattari, Rhizomatic learning, Rhizomatic process, Rhizomatic research, Rhizomes
Tagged adult education, adult learning, deleuze, guattari, rhizomatic research, rhizome
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Networked Connectivity and Adult Learning – Social Media, the Knowledgeable Other and Distance Education
Read Over the past decades, information technology has had a disruptive effect on adult education. Today, learners can access libraries from their pocket and shape their thoughts while socializing on networks. The position of educators as ‘knowledgeable others’ has … Continue reading
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
Posted in Adult education, Adult learning, Citizenship, Freire
Tagged adult education, citizenship, freire, gandhi, grundtvig, tagore
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