Full Description
Remaking Adult Learning provides an exciting and innovative addition to the literature on adult learning. Charting challenges and successes in the sector, it illustrates how taking part in well-thought-out programmes can have a positive and sometimes life-saving impact on people's lives. While grounded in adult learning practice, the book draws upon local, national and global perspectives, contemporary research and incisive analysis to focus on themes including: * participation and equality; * the role of adult learning in social movements; * adults learning and teaching in different contexts; * adult learning and policy; * the value of learning for its own sake. The book asks the question: 'What is to be done about the education of adults?' Worldwide adult learning remains seriously under-resourced as a public good even though its importance to health, citizenship, economic and social well-being and sustainable development is well-evidenced. Faced with the challenges of poverty, climate change and economic crises, the world has never needed adult learning more.Specific chapters address issues such as adult learning provision in an ageing society, learning organisations, literacy and numeracy, family learning, participation and achievement, among others. Remaking Adult Learning includes an interview with Alan Tuckett OBE. The book is written in tribute to him and his lifelong commitment to adult learning which has led to initiatives such as adult learners' week and learning festivals. It explores how he has inspired and influenced those involved in the adult learning sector, from grassroots to both national and international policy contexts. This book is essential reading for all those involved in the adult learning sector, including practitioners, policy-makers, academics and researchers.
Contents
IntroductionUrsula Howard Section 1: Participation and equality: Does adult learning make any difference? 1 What kind of advocacy is most effective to bring about changes in national or regional adult learning policies? Ask Alan Tuckett by Paul Belanger 2 Adult participation in learning: The NIACE surveys by Fiona Aldridge 3 Participation and achievement in education: Is gender still an issue? by Veronica McGivney 4 Participation, life history and perceived changes in basic skills by Stephen Reder 5 Learning in an ageing society by Stephen McNair 6 Lifelong learning, the life course and longitudinal study: Building the evidence base by John Bynner Section 2: Adult learning and social movements 7 Is adult education an international movement? Alan Tuckett and the International League for Social Commitment in Adult Education (ILSCAE), 1984-94 by John Payne 8 The dance between struggle and hope: Lifelong, life-wide and life-deep learning in the time of HIV and AIDS by Shirley Walters 9 Adult learners' weeks and learning festivals: Theoretical reflections on the development and dissemination of an idea in a global perspective by Michael Schemmann 10 Adult Learner's Week: 20 years on by Martin Yarnit 11 Mobilising for adult learning: Reflective and festive events by H.S. Bhola 12 Education for association: Re-membering for a new moral world by Stephen Yeo Section 3: Adults learning, adults teaching 13 The messiness of real teaching and learning by Jay Derrick 14 Making jobs bigger for better learning: Connecting policies for lifelong learning to workplace improvement by Lorna Unwin 15 'A trail of interest through the maze of materials': A historical perspective on technology for adult learning in the Third Age by Nigel Paine 16 Adult learning and 'the learner voice' by Chris Jude 17 Imagining a better future: An interview with David Puttnam by Paul Stanistreet Section 4: Adult learning and policy 18 Learning organisations by Ekkehard Nuissl von Rein 19 Innovation and change in adult education in the Inner London Education Authority (ILEA) by Tom Jupp 20 NIACE: Policy, politics and campaigning 1988-2008 by Leisha Fullick 21 Family literacy: A case study in how to develop policy by John Benseman and Alison Sutton 22 Seriously useless learning? Potential and limits of recent research on the benefits of learning by John Field 23 Looking differently at adult learning by Tom Schuller Section 5: Don't look back: Remaking adult learning 24 Alan Tuckett: A biographical sketch by Ursula Howard 25 Leading a learning organisation by Sue Meyer, Peter Lavender and Alastair Thomson 26 'Five minutes in front of everyone else...': An interview with Alan Tuckett by Ekkehard Nuissl von Rein
