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100 1 _aTorres, Carlos Alberto,
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aPolitical Sociology of Adult Education /
_cCarlos Alberto Torres.
264 1 _aLeiden;
_aBoston :
_bBrill | Sense,
_c2013.
300 _a1 online resource
336 _atext
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337 _aunmediated
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338 _aonline resource
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490 1 _aInternational Issues in Adult Education ;
_v12
490 1 _aEducational Research E-Books Online, Collection 2005-2017, ISBN: 9789004394001
505 0 0 _aPreliminary Material -- Introduction -- Reconceptualizing Lifelong Learning -- A Political Sociology of Adult Learning Education in the Twenty First Century -- Rationalities in Adult Learning Education -- Adult Learning Education and Civilization Crises -- Reinventing Adult Learning Education: Unleashing the Power, Reclaiming the Dream -- Adult Learning Education and Literacy as International Comparative Education -- Transformative Social Justice Learning as a New Lifelong Learning Paradigm: The Role of Critical Theory and Public Intellectuals -- Bibliography -- Afterword -- Praise for the Book-Back Jacket -- Index.
520 _aCritical Theorist Carlos Alberto Torres offers a political sociology of adult learning and education, based on Critical Social Theory and the always inspiring work of Paulo Freire. Empirically grounded and theoretically sophisticated, this new book follows the footsteps of his classic book published in the early nineties The Politics of Nonformal Education in Latin America . Torres's book offers comparative and international sociological analyses of adult learning and education, an area in which there is an obsession with ‘practice’ and an aversion to theory, with some notable and laudable exceptions, but which has the potential to provide avenues for social justice education in ways that no other systems and policies can. This book revitalizes social theory in education, and provides ample evidence of the power of adult learning and education, examining a variety of policy documents connected with the various adult education congresses promoted by the UNESCO, which are thoroughly scrutinized for what they bring to or omit from the policy agenda. In the context of new developments in adult learning and education, particularly the impact of multiple globalizations, neoliberalism, and the new role of international organizations in reconceptualizing lifelong learning, new evidence-based research, new narratives, and the vibrancy of social movements striving for a new and possible world, it is clear that new theoretical designs were needed making this is a must-read book.
588 _aDescription based on print version record.
650 0 _aAdult education.
650 0 _aContinuing education.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_tPolitical Sociology of Adult Education,
_dLeiden Boston : Brill | Sense, 2013
_w9789462092266
830 0 _aInternational Issues in Adult Education ;
_v12.
830 0 _aEducational Research E-Books Online, Collection 2005-2017, ISBN: 9789004394001.
856 4 _zDOI:
_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-227-3
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