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This book examines the implications of postmodern culture for adult education through a review of modernist culture and education and a comparative account of modernist and postmodernist culture that is configured as a s...
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Examines moral education in a postmodern cultural context, where there is a privatization of moral responsibility. Building upon a critique of modernist ethics and moral education, five types of response to privatization...
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Tenets of postmodernism are the interpretive nature of perception and the cultural contingency of belief. Postmodernist adult education would be reflexively contextualized, indeterminate, expressive, participative, heter...
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Describes four tensions in postmodern continuing education practice: aggregation versus fragmentation, consistency versus flexibility, description versus evaluation, and associationality versus immediacy. Explains the tw...
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Questions assumptions of contractualism: education as a private commodity, enlightened self-interest, specifiability of outcomes, individualistic view of humanity, client awareness of best interests. Quality of a contrac...
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Vocational education for adult educators should be based on understanding of adult education's philosophical orientations; respect for persons; sensitivity to students' prior experiences, expectations, and sociocultural ...
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Most research on participation in adult education has focused on participative presence. However, learner involvement and control are far more important in adult education, and this disjunction leads to research findings...
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Examines the traditional liberal adult education thesis of educational externalism: that the role of the educator must be undertaken by a person other than the learner. Argues that this requirement is without defensible ...