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Engaging with Difference: The Other in Adult Education - Softcover

 
9781872941592: Engaging with Difference: The Other in Adult Education
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1872941591 ISBN 13: 9781872941592
Publisher: National Institute of Adult Continuing Education, 1998

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Unusual book

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Review

'...a valuable source for practitioners...useful contributions on work with people with special needs.' - (WEA Reportback)

Synopsis

Who is the 'other' in adult education? The term is used here to refer to all those traditionally excluded from the full range of educational opportunities: women; adults with learning difficulties; members of ethnic minorities; older adults; people without conventional educational qualifications. Engaging with Difference is a fresh and stimulating attempt to overcome the worn-out polarities of recent educational thinking, and urges instead a much closer engagement with learners in all their diversity. Among the topics explored are accreditation; open and distance learning; computer assisted learning; learning contracts; community care provision; refugee education; and education for an ageing population. A central theme of the book is autonomy and power in the learning process, and this is reflected in the range of student and tutor voices which are not often heard in educational debate. Engaging with Difference will be of interest to all involved in delivering and planning adult education in further and community education and in university continuing education. It will also appeal to those working in community and social care.

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Publisher
National Institute of Adult Continuing Education
Publication date
1998
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1872941591
ISBN 13 
9781872941592
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
214
Editor
Stuart Mary, Thomson Alistair