Adult Education as Empowerment (eBook)

Re-imagining Lifelong Learning through the Capability Approach, Recognition Theory and Common Goods Perspective

Pepka Boyadjieva, Petya Ilieva-Trichkova (Autoren)

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2021
343 Seiten
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-67136-5 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

Pepka Boyadjieva is Professor at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociologyat the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria and Honorary Professor of Sociology of Education at the University of Nottingham, United Kingdom. She has published on higher education, educational inequalities, social justice in education, lifelong learning and school to work transitions.

Petya Ilieva-Trichkova is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria and holds a PhD from the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland. Her research interests cover inequalities in access to higher education, lifelong learning and graduate employability. 

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 19.3.2021
• Reihe/Serie: Palgrave Studies in Adult Education and Lifelong Learning
• Reihe/Serie: Palgrave Studies in Adult Education and Lifelong Learning
• Zusatzinfo: XXI, 343 p. 18 illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung
• Schlagworte: Adult Education • adult non-formal education • agency and adult education • Lifelong learning in Europe • widening access to adult education
• ISBN-10: 3-030-67136-4 / 3030671364
• ISBN-13: 978-3-030-67136-5 / 9783030671365