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Beyond Learning: Democratic Education for a Human Future
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Biesta, Gert – Paradigm Publishers, 2006
Many educational practices are based upon philosophical ideas about what it means to be human, including particular subjectivities and identities such as the rational person, the autonomous individual, or the democratic citizen. This book asks what might happen to the ways in which we educate if we treat the question as to what it means to be…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Educational Responsibility, Democracy, Democratic Values
Adult Education and the State: Towards a Politics of Adult Education.
Jarvis, Peter – 1993
This book is intended as an introduction to the political theory of the education of adults. Chapter 1 examines the relationship between adult education (AE) and civil society over the past several hundred years. Discussed in Chapter 2 are major theoretical and ideological perspectives about the state and AE, affinities between AE and political…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Case Studies, Citizenship