Lifelong Learning and Dementia: A Posthumanist Perspective (1st ed. 2020) (Palgrave Studies in Adult Education and Lifelong Learning)
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- Synopsis
- This book explores the potential for lifelong learning in dementia. A growing social issue, dementia has previously been understood as a wasteland for learning: at best, those with dementia are helped to hold on to some pre-existing skills. This book draws on extensive qualitative data with people with dementia and their families to demonstrate that new forms of learning can happen in dementia, with positive outcomes for both the learner and those around them. In doing so, this book demonstrates that those with dementia help us to understand learning differently, thus providing a breakthrough in our understanding and theorising of lifelong learning. Using posthuman theory to scaffold and discuss the findings, this pioneering book will appeal to scholars of dementia, lifelong learning and the posthuman.
- Copyright:
- 2020
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- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9783030422318
- Related ISBNs:
- 9783030422301
- Publisher:
- Springer International Publishing
- Date of Addition:
- 06/01/20
- Copyrighted By:
- Springer
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Psychology, Education, Medicine, Music, Philosophy, Sociology
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- Bookshare Staff
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- This is a copyrighted book.
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