Adult Education And The Postmodern Challenge: Learning Beyond The Limits; Author: Bryant, Ian; Author: With Usher, Robin; Paperback

Author: Bryant, Ian; Author: With Usher, Robin
New ed; Paperback
264 pages
Published: December 1996
Taylor & Francis Books Ltd
ISBN: 0415120217

Drawing on the new intellectual frameworks of critical pedagogy, feminism and postmodernism and their impact upon educational theory, practice and research, the book focuses on the changingcontexts of adult education.By building on the notion of going beyond the limits of certain current adult education orthodoxies, the authors try to provide alternatives for practice. The final three chapters deal with research, focusing on a critical macro-analysis of mainstream paradigms, a review of alternative approaches, and a more micro-analysis centering on the role of the socially-located self in the research process.Drawing on the intellectual frameworks of critical pedagogy, feminism and postmodernism and their impact upon educational theory, practice and research, this study focuses on the changing contexts of adult education.