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  title info:
    title: Adult Education in Neoliberal Times
    sub title: Policies, Philosophies and Professionalism
  name:
    name part: Bowl, Marion.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2017
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XI, 200 p. 2 illus. online resource.
  abstract: This book explores the realities of adult education practice in the current political and economic climate. With a particular focus on examining the effect of the multitude of changes in policy and philosophy over the past 30 years, the book explores how the values and career expectations of adult educators have been affected, and considers the implications for adult education as a field of professional practice. As well as exploring the broader international picture, the book draws on the findings of recent research into adult and community education practitioners’ perspectives in two case study countries – England and Aotearoa/New Zealand – to illustrate how local contexts and cultures, as well as global trends, impact on the structure and organisation of adult education. By presenting the perspectives of adult educators, whose voices have been relatively absent from the recent literature, this book gives a unique insight into how their work has been adversely affected by funding and policy pressures in an increasingly insecure educational environment, and analyses their responses to the contradictions between their professional values and the expectations placed upon them by policy and funding changes. It will be of great interest to students and researchers working in Education and Sociology, and will also make compelling reading for policy-makers.
  table of contents: PART I. Historical and Political Contexts for Adult Education -- Chapter 1. From Adult Education to Lifelong Learning: A Changing Global Landscape -- Chapter 2. England and New Zealand: Two National Contexts for Adult Education -- Chapter 3. Professionalism, Professionalisation and Continuing Professional Development in the Adult Education Arena. PART II. Adult Educators' Working Lives Researched -- Chapter 4. Researching Perspectives on Adult Education Policy and Practice -- Chapter 5. A ‘Non-Career’: Occupational Identities and Career Trajectories -- Adult Educator Philosophies and Values -- Chapter 7. Confronting the Dilemmas: Accommodation and Resistance -- Chapter 8. The Bigger Picture: Strategy and Advocacy -- Chapter 9. Lessons for Neoliberal Times.
  note: by Marion Bowl.
  subject:
    topic: Education
  subject:
    topic: Educational policy
  subject:
    topic: ducation and state
  subject:
    topic: Educational sociology
  subject:
    topic: Education
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Lifelong learning
  subject:
    topic: Adult education
  subject:
    topic: Education and sociology
  subject:
    topic: Sociology, Educational
  subject:
    topic: Education
  subject:
    topic: Lifelong Learning/Adult Education
  subject:
    topic: Educational Policy and Politics
  subject:
    topic: Educational Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Professional & Vocational Education
  subject:
    topic: Sociology of Education
  subject:
    topic: Sociology of Education
  classification: LC5201-6660.4
  classification: 374
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9783319508832
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50883-2
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    record creation date: 170320
    record change date: 20170320055129.0
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