Adult Education as Empowerment: Re-imagining Lifelong Learning through the Capability Approach, Recognition Theory and Common Goods Perspective (1st ed. 2021) (Palgrave Studies in Adult Education and Lifelong Learning)

By: Pepka Boyadjieva and Petya Ilieva-Trichkova

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Synopsis: 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.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9783030671365
Related ISBNs:: 9783030671358
Publisher:: Springer International Publishing
Date of Addition:: 05/15/21
Copyrighted By:: The Editor
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Business and Finance, Education, Philosophy, Politics and Government, Sociology
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
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