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Author:   Fergal Finnegan ,  Bernie Grummell
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   7
Weight:   0.468kg
ISBN:  

9789004413313

ISBN 10:   9004413316
Pages:   200
Publication Date:   28 November 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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The European Society for Research on the Education of Adults (ESREA) Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors 1. Power and Possibility in Adult Education: Reflecting on Old Themes in New Times  Fergal Finnegan and Bernie Grummell Part 1: Taking the Long View of Continuities and Change in Adult Education 2. Revisiting the Faure Report and the Delors Report: Why Was UNESCO’S Utopian Vision of Lifelong Learning an “Unfailure”?  Maren Elfert 3. Comparative and Global Policy Studies on Adult Education: Key Patterns in Contemporary Adult Education Policy Research  Marcella Milana 4. “The Politics of Responsibility” Revisited: An Analysis of Power as a Central Construct in Program Planning  Thomas J. Sork and Bernd Käpplinger Part 2: The Age of Metrics and the Reconfiguration of Policy and Practice in Adult Education 5. The Role of Transnational Bodies in Lifelong Learning and the Politics of Measurement: The Promise and Pitfalls of Outcomes-Based Assessment into Recognition of Prior Learning System in Portugal  Rosanna Barros 6. The Discourses of PIAAC: Re-imagining Literacy through Numbers  Mary Hamilton 7. The Challenge of Competence Assessment: Problematizing Institutional Regimes – Proclaiming a Paradigm Shift?  Henning Salling Olesen Part 3: Theorising Power and Possibility in a Complex World 8. Recognition and Redistribution: Rethinking the Meaning of Justice in Adult Education  Lyn Tett 9. Re-Infusing Adult Education with a Critical Feminist Framework: Inspiration from Mary Parker Follett  Leona M. English 10. Enacting Equality: Rethinking Emancipation and Adult Education with Jacques Ranciere  Kerry Harman 11. Time, Power and the Emancipatory Aims of Adult Education  Michel Alhadeff-Jones Part 4: Power in a Diverse and Complex World 12. Questioning Power Relations: Learning Processes through Solidarity with Refugees  Brigitte Kukovetz and Annette Sprung 13. Embracing Social Inclusion? The Asylum Seeker Experience of Applying for Admission to Tertiary Education in Australia  Karen Dunwoodie, Susan Webb and Jane Wilkinson 14. Nurturing Solidarity in Diversity: The Superdiverse Shop Floor of Tower Automotive in Ghent  Joke Vandenabeele and Pascal Debruyne Part 5: Making Hope Practical 15. Democratic and Intercultural Dialogue across Universities, Communities and Movements  Linden West 16. The Impact of Transformative Learning on Social Transformations: A Comparative Study of Participatory Budgets in Maribor (Slovenia) and Rosario (Argentina)  Marta Gregor.i. and Sabina Jelenc Kra.ovec 17. Theorising Adult Education, Power and Socio-Environmental Change: A Consideration of the Climate Justice Movement  Pierre Walter and Jenalee Kluttz

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Fergal Finnegan is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Adult and Community Education, Maynooth University and is a co-director of the Doctorate in Higher and Adult Education programme. His background is in community education and his research interests include transformative learning, biographical research, social class, equality and higher education. Bernie Grummell is a Senior Lecturer in the Departments of Education and Adult & Community Education, Maynooth University. She previously worked with the School of Sociology and the Equality Studies Centre, University College Dublin. She is a co-director of the Doctoral programmes in Higher and Adult Education. Research interests include equality and inclusion issues in education.

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