Adult Education for a Change

ISBN-13: 9781138365896 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 254 str.

Jane L. Thompson

Opis

Originally published in 1980 this book examines why adult education historically failed to attract working class students and whether experiences in Northern Ireland, the USA and Italy have any lessons to teach.

Spis treści

Introduction 1. Adult Education and the Sociology of Education: An Exploration 2. Adult Education: An Ideology of Individualism 3. The Theory of Community Education and Its Relation to Adult Education 4. Adult Education and the Disadvantaged 5. Independence and Incorporation: The Labour College Movement and the Workers' Educational Association Before the Second World War Part 2: Selected Studies 6. Reform and Reaction - The Workers Educational Association post-Russell 7. Writers' Workshops and Working-Class Culture 8. Adult Eduction and Community Action 9. Second Chance to Learn, Liverpool: Class and Adult Education 10. 150 Hours: Italy's Experiment in Mass Working-Class Adult Education 11. Adult Education For a Change

O autorze

Jane L. Thompson