Higher & Adult Education
11 Volume Set
Routledge Library Editions: Education Mini-Set G
Originally published between 1974 and 1992.
They discuss and analyze adult education from both theoretical and practical standpoints and look at the challenges facing adult education during the 1970s and 80s as well as examining the history of higher & adult education in the UK.
The mini-set includes one volume which although previously available with another publisher (and out of print for some years) is now available for the first time from Routledge.
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International Higher Education Volume 1
An Encyclopedia
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education
This encyclopedia is the result of a highly selective enterprise that provides a careful selection of key topics in essays written by top scholars in their fields. Comprehensive and in-depth coverage of a limited number of countries, regions and themes is provided. The essays not only feature...
Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge
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International Higher Education Volume 2
An Encyclopedia
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education
This encyclopedia is the result of a highly selective enterprise that provides a careful selection of key topics in essays written by top scholars in their fields. Comprehensive and in-depth coverage of a limited number of countries, regions and themes is provided. The essays not only feature...
Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge
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Adult Learning in the Social Context
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education
This book is a logical progression from The Sociology of Adult and Continuing Education. The author takes a completely new approach to the subject and puts forward a model of adult learning which is analysed in depth. This model arises from the results of a research project in which adults analysed...
Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge
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The Sociology of Adult & Continuing Education
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education
This book provides a comprehensive sociological overview of adult and continuing education. It draws on all branches of sociology rather than advocating one approach. It examines the theories of all the significant sociological writers in the field such as Knowles, Marx, Freire and Gramsci and sets...
Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge
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Paradoxes of Learning
On Becoming An Individual in Society
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education
As more is discovered about the powerful impact of lifelong learning on adults, educators are changing their views about how, when and where we learn. Learning is no longer defined only in the context of formal educational settings but in social context as well – including families, the workplace,...
Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge
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Power & Authority in British Universities
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education
In facing the question ‘who runs the universities’, the authors have carried out over a period of years an extensive programme of interviews, both formal and informal, as well as a detailed study of documents. Their findings are written up in the language of politics – in terms of power, authority,...
Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge
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Higher Education for All? (RLE Edu G)
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education
The rapid expansion of higher education provision, particularly in Europe and North America during the 1960s opened up for the first time the question whether everyone should have the opportunity to experience the benefits of higher university and other institutions. The contributors are economists...
Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge
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Education for Adults
Volume 1 Adult Learning and Education
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education
The nature of adult education at individual, group and community levels is the concern of this book. Definitions and patterns of adult learning are critically assessed in both this country and abroad, and the processes involved considered in detail. Both case studies and thematic articles have been...
Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge
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Education for Adults
Volume 2 Opportunities for Adult Education
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education
This book opens with a survey of the historical evolution of adult education in the UK and leads on to the study of the structure of adult learning. It discusses distance teaching opportunities such as the Open University and the National Extension College, and face-to-face teaching provision in...
Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge
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Adult Education as Theory, Practice and Research
The Captive Triangle
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education
The authors argue that the aim of research should be to improve practice through a process of critical reflection. Focusing clearly on the everyday concerns and problems of practitioners, they emphasize the importance of practical knowledge. Their definition of ‘practice’ is wide, and includes the...
Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge
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Adult Education & The Working Class
Education for the Missing Millions
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education
This book has two purposes: first to argue that there is a greater need now than ever before for liberal adult education for the working class. Such provision would both help to ameliorate the gross inequalities of our society and provide some counter-balance to the increasingly utilitarian and...
Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge