Overview
- Winner of the AAACE Cyril O. Houle Award
- Re-imagines the role of adult education at individual and societal levels
- Deploys several theories and approaches including recognition theory and the embeddedness approach
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Adult Education and Lifelong Learning (PSAELL)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Structure, Agency, and Empowerment in Adult Education Reconsidered
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Adult Education, Public Goods, and Common Goods
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About this book
This book re-imagines the essence and role of adult education at both the individual and societal levels. It provides arguments for understanding adult education as a process of agency and empowerment, which has not only instrumental but intrinsic and transformative roles to play. This book brings together ideas from the capability approach with insights from recognition theory; the embeddedness approach; the political economic perspective for understanding public and private goods and the common goods perspective. The analysis draws on data from large-scale international studies – alongside qualitative data - and adopts a wide-ranging European comparative perspective. The book develops original instruments for measuring different dimensions of adult education as a common good, and its realisation in different social contexts. It is aimed at academics, students, practitioners, and policy makers interested in adult and/or higher education and the social justice perspective to human life.
Reviews
“This is an outstanding contribution to the conceptualization and analysis of adult education and its significance for individuals, communities, and societies. The authors creatively combine discussion and development of theory with empirical analysis of cross-national data. The result is a book full of important insights and perspectives, really valuable to scholars and students as well as to stakeholders and practitioners in adult education” (Palle Rasmussen, Emeritus Professor, Aalborg University, Denmark)
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Petya Ilieva-Trichkova is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria and holds a PhD from the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland. Her research interests cover inequalities in access to higher education, lifelong learning and graduate employability.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Adult Education as Empowerment
Book Subtitle: Re-imagining Lifelong Learning through the Capability Approach, Recognition Theory and Common Goods Perspective
Authors: Pepka Boyadjieva, Petya Ilieva-Trichkova
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Adult Education and Lifelong Learning
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-67136-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-67135-8Published: 20 March 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-67138-9Published: 20 March 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-67136-5Published: 19 March 2021
Series ISSN: 2524-6313
Series E-ISSN: 2524-6321
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 343
Number of Illustrations: 18 b/w illustrations
Topics: Lifelong Learning/Adult Education, Educational Policy and Politics, Philosophy of Education, Educational Philosophy, Professional & Vocational Education