In From the Margins

Adult Education, Work and Civil Society

This book focuses at the margins of adult education, work and civil society. Rather than focusing on active participants and active participation, the objective is to scrutinize the whole adult population in terms of participation, and to pay special attention to those who are so easily left out of studies concerning adult education, learning at work or active participation in civil society. The aim of the book is to bring into the discussion the views of those who do not find attending adult education possible and who thus form a challenge for the promotion of active citizenship. In the collection of articles researchers from various disciplines and with cross-disciplinary interests in adult education and marginalisation meet and discuss with each other within and beyond their own disciplines.

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In whose interests?
Interrogating the metamorphosis of adult education
Pages: 11–26
Keeping the coals glowing
A case study of the Certificate in Education (Participatory Development)
Pages: 65–77
Civic participation
An opportunity of integration for young multicultural adults?
Pages: 101–109
Participation and non-participation in lifelong learning
A study of the learning divide in Hong Kong
Pages: 147–157
Lifelong learning in civil society organisations
The great equaliser?
Pages: 159–173
In the margins, or not?
The case of business women in the Finnish countryside
Pages: 185–197
Education society's dissenters?
The relation to education among working-class women trained as cleaners
Pages: 199–211
Reaching the non-participant
Why many adults do not participate in formal learning opportunities?
Pages: 213–224
Education of older adults in Portugal
Characterisation and discussion of policies
Pages: 225–234
Too old to rock'n roll?
Adult students' study progress, learning experiences and drop-out in university
Pages: 235–251
Museums and the unbearable lightness of inclusion
A short analysis of misunderstood words (pace Kundera)
Pages: 253–263
School and special education
Impact on identity and life trajectories
Pages: 265–283
Self-taught life
Learning outside institutions but not "at the margins"
Pages: 285–294
Postgraduate study bye-learning in Greece
Addressing social and geographical marginalisation
Pages: 315–325
Overcoming digital divide
Local lessons about transferring of models
Pages: 327–341
Educational Researchers and their students
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