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    Enacting equality: rethinking emancipation and adult education with Jacque Rancière

    Harman, Kerry (2019) Enacting equality: rethinking emancipation and adult education with Jacque Rancière. In: Finnegan, F. and Grummell, B. (eds.) Power and possibility: adult education in a diverse and complex world. Rotterdam, The Netherlands: Sense Publishers, pp. 107-116. ISBN 9789004413306.

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    Abstract

    Book synopsis: Power has been a defining and constitutive theme of adult education scholarship for over a century and is a central concern of many of the most famous and influential thinkers in the field. Adult education has been particularly interested in how an analysis of power can be used to support transformative learning and democratic participation. In a fragile and interdependent world these questions are more important than ever. The aim of this collection is to offer an analysis of power and possibility in adult education which acknowledges, analyzes and responds to the complexity and diversity that characterizes contemporary education and society. Power and Possibility: Adult Education in a Diverse and Complex World explores the topic of power and possibility theoretically, historically and practically through a range of perspectives and in relation to varied areas of interest within contemporary adult education. It is concerned with addressing how power works in and through adult education today by exploring what has changed in recent years and what is shaping and driving policy. Alongside this the book explores ways of theorizing learning, power and transformation that builds and extends adult education philosophy. In particular it takes up the themes of diversity and solidarity and explores barriers and possibilities for change in relation to these themes.

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    Item Type: Book Section
    School: Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Creative Arts, Culture and Communication
    Research Centres and Institutes: Social Change and Transformation in HE, Centre for
    Depositing User: Kerry Harman
    Date Deposited: 15 Jan 2020 18:58
    Last Modified: 09 Aug 2023 12:45
    URI: https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/25992

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