Publications
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Chapter «Professors of the Street»: Cognitive Justice in Times of ‘Crisis’
(2023)
Arundati Roy (2020) states that historically pandemics have forced humans to break with the past and imagine their world anew. This chapter, set in the COVID-19 pandemic, centres the importance of cognitive justice which ...
Chapter Developing Adult Educators as Professionals and Adult Education as a Profession: Experiences of DVV International throughout the World and within Several Decades
(2023)
In its first part, the article will concentrate on the period when Lalage and DVV International worked almost in parallel in a number of countries with partners in Africa from the 1960s onwards. Both were involved in the ...
Chapter Learning in Later Years: Perspectives from Nigeria
(2023)
This chapter explores learning in later life in the Nigerian context, highlighting research findings on the focus of learning among older persons, with special emphasis placed on adult and non-formal education programmes. ...
Chapter Changing Conceptions of Literacy: Pluriversal Literacies
(2023)
«We are being stunted by a form of critical illiteracy», state Tierney, Smith and Kan, and «our global scholarship is facing a crisis of similar proportion to that of climate change […] because we are insufficiently ‘reading ...
Chapter Capturing Lifelong Learning Data through International Surveys and Novel Innovative Methods
(2023)
Previous literature has highlighted the predominant use of qualitative research methods within the field of adult education. While a wide range of opportunities to exploit and gather large scale quantitative data are ...