Adult Learning And Social Change In The Uk: National And Local Perspectives (Adult Learning, Literacy And Social Change)

Cover -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Contributors -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Series Foreword -- 1 Being part of the social change: adult education and lessons from history Sharon Clancy -- 2 Radical adult education practitioners in the UK: the International League for Social Commitment in Adult Education 1984-94 Alan Tuckett -- 3 Adult learning and social justice: health, well-being and the inequalities of power Lyn Tett -- 4 Learning English in a hostile environment: a study of volunteer ESOL teachers of refugees and asylum seekers in the UK Lauren Bouttell -- 5 A refugee third sector learning ecology for social change: 'covert activism' Mary-Rose Puttick -- 6 Discussion groups with older people: an interface of participatory ageing and social change Kathleen Lane -- 7 Tales of adult learning, relationships and social change within the National Citizen Service Natasha Rennolds -- 8 The achievements of informal adult reading group talk through vernacular expression: challenging the dominant discourses of literary study John Gordon -- 9 Learning through the Covid-19 pandemic: how the pandemic has affected the ways in which adults experience learning in the UK Karen Fairfax-Cholmeley and Clare Meade -- 10 Learning to live sustainably? A case study of a community gardening scheme in Norwich Mahesh Pant -- Concluding reflections Alan Rogers and Jules Robbins -- Index.

• | Author: Jules Robbins, Alan Rogers
• | Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• | Publication Date: Mar 09, 2023
• | Number of Pages: 240 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1350262129
• | ISBN-13: 9781350262126