It has long been recognised that the processes of adult learning may evoke powerful
emotional responses (More 1974), sometimes resulting in the rejection of new learning and …

While much has been written about the transformative potential of adult education from the
student perspective, little research has been done into the experiences of those who teach …

How is adult learning used to produce personal, organisational and social change? This
interesting examination of adult learning for change illustrates through diverse case studies …

The study draws on life history, literacy studies, and ethnographic approaches to exploring
social practices as a frame to explore the narratives of two UK adult literacy learners who …

This article draws on the theories of Mezirow, Foucault, and Holland and colleagues to
investigate how students were positioned in relation to their own experiences, what …

By telling and retelling their life stories in everyday social interaction, adult learners describe
times of continuity and change in their lives, and give an account of their self-formation. A …

Educational discourse has often struggled to genuinely move beyond deficit-based
language. Even action research, a predominant model for teacher development, starts with …

Recent critical scholarship has challenged the dominant psychological paradigm that has
guided research on teaching and learning for a number of generations (Burman 1994, Fine …

This special issue arises from the urgency expressed by many adult educator practitioners,
theorists and activist-researchers for the need to draw attention to the numerous sites of …

In 1996 the Centre for Adult and Community Education at St. Patrick's College Maynooth
published Radical Learning for Liberation (MACE, 1996) stating that it would be the first in a …