Seeking Wisdom in Adult Teaching and Learning An Autoethnographic Inquiry /

• Main Author: Fraser, Wilma (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Lifelong learning.; Adult education.; Educational sociology.; Education-Philosophy.; Alternative Education.; Educational sociology .; Education and sociology.; Education-Research.; Lifelong Learning/Adult Education.; Sociology of Education.; Educational Philosophy.; Research Methods in Education.

This book concerns the pursuit of wisdom in education, and the argument that wisdom - personified here as Sophia - is tragically marginalised or absent in current Western epistemological discourses. It includes a review of key historical and classical framings which have lost much potency and releva...