Routledge Research in Lifelong Learning and Adult Education
About the Book Series
This series presents the works of established and emerging scholars on the latest research and practices in the field of Lifelong Learning and Adult Education.
Please send inquiries or proposals for this series to one of the following:
Manon Berset: [email protected] – Editor, UK, Europe, Africa, and the Middle East
Kirsty Murray: [email protected] – Editor, North & South America
Kanishka Jangir: [email protected] – Editor, Australia, New Zealand & Asia
Beyond Transformative Learning in African-American Adult Education: Religion, Health, and Permeated Learning as a New Model of Adult Learning
1st Edition
By Gerald D. Redwine
December 13, 2021
By exploring how the religious beliefs, scientific knowledge, and social surroundings of African-American sufferers of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) impacts their understanding of the condition, this book develops a new model of effective adult learning.Presenting the findings of rigorous ...
Further Education, Professional and Occupational Pedagogy: Knowledge and Experiences
1st Edition
By Sai Loo
March 31, 2021
The further education (and skills) sector in England has been viewed as a backwater of educational research compared to the other sectors. This comparative lack of research and related publications may be due in part to the huge diversity of the sector. Further Education, Professional and ...
How Non-Permanent Workers Learn and Develop: Challenges and Opportunities
1st Edition
By Helen Bound, Karen Evans, Sahara Sadik, Annie Karmel
May 07, 2020
How Non-Permanent Workers Learn and Develop is an empirically based exploration of the challenges and opportunities non-permanent workers face in accessing quality work, learning, developing occupational identities and striving for sustainable working lives. Based on a study of 100 non-permanent ...
Adult Education and the Formation of Citizens: A Critical Interrogation
1st Edition
By Andreas Fejes, Magnus Dahlstedt, Maria Olson, Fredrik Sandberg
February 25, 2020
Adult Education and the Formation of Citizens turns attention towards normative claims about who adults should become through education, and what capacities and skills adults need to develop to become included in society as ‘full’ citizens. Through these debates, adults are construed as not yet ...
UNESCO�s Utopia of Lifelong Learning: An Intellectual History
1st Edition
By Maren Elfert
December 10, 2019
With a focus on lifelong learning, this book examines the shifts that UNESCO’s educational concepts have undergone in reaction to historical pressures and dilemmas since the founding of the organization in 1945. The tensions between UNESCO’s humanistic worldview and the pressures placed on the ...
Global Networks, Local Actions: Rethinking adult education policy in the 21st century
1st Edition
By Marcella Milana
June 28, 2018
Global Networks, Local Actions: Rethinking adult education policy in the 21st century examines public policy developments in adult education, exploring the policy framing of adult education practice in a range of socio-cultural contexts, and contributing to the development of policy research from ...
Vocational Education of Female Entrepreneurs in China: A multitheoretical and multidimensional analysis of successful businesswomen's everyday lives
1st Edition
By Mary Ann Maslak
April 25, 2018
This book examines the ways in which formal and non-formal education can contribute to women’s successful design, development and operation of small businesses in rural settings. Calling on varied, pertinent social theories, the book examines profitable businesses operated by Dongxiang Muslim women...
Enhancing the Wellbeing and Wisdom of Older Learners: A co-research paradigm
1st Edition
By Tess Maginess
December 21, 2017
Enhancing the Wellbeing and Wisdom of Older Learners: A Co-research Paradigm examines how lifelong learning, becoming wise, and sharing wisdom are integrally linked to older people’s wellbeing. The book highlights appropriate learning styles and pedagogies for older people, including research ...
Life and Learning of Korean Artists and Craftsmen: Rhizoactivity
1st Edition
By Dae Joong Kang
October 12, 2017
This book brings out the need for lifelong learning theory and explores how it is possible from a postmodern perspective. The book uses life history that has gained its popularity in social science research to overcome the dichotomy between individual and society or between agency and structure. ...
Learning Trajectories, Violence and Empowerment amongst Adult Basic Skills Learners
1st Edition
By Vicky Duckworth
November 07, 2016
Learning Trajectories, Violence and Empowerment amongst Adult Basic Skills Learners offers deep insights into the lives of marginalised communities and the link between learning, literacy and violence, not previously carried out in-depth in a small scale study. It breaks the negative stereo-types ...