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Remaking Adult Learning: Essays on adult education in honour of Alan Tuckett
Author(s): Jay Derrick (Editor), Ursula Howard (Editor), John Field (Editor), Peter Lavender (Editor), Sue Meyer (Editor), Ekkehard Nuissl von Rein (Editor), Tom Schuller (Editor), Fiona Aldridge (Contributor), Paul Bélanger (Contributor), John Benseman (Contributor), Alison Sutton (Contributor), H.S. Bhola (Contributor), John Bynner (Contributor), Leisha Fullick (Contributor), Chris Jude (Contributor), Tom Jupp (Contributor), Veronica McGivney (Contributor), Stephen McNair (Contributor), Nigel Paine (Contributor), John Payne (Contributor), Stephen Reder (Contributor), Michael Schemmann (Contributor), Paul Stanistreet (Contributor), Alastair Thomson (Contributor), Lorna Unwin (Contributor), Shirley Walters (Contributor), Martin Yarnit (Contributor), Stephen Yeo (Contributor)
- Publisher: Institute of Education
- Publication Date: 16 Dec. 2010
- Language: English
- Print length: 296 pages
- ISBN-10: 0854738851
- ISBN-13: 9780854738854
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Editorial Reviews
Review
Complete with graphs, interviews and images, the book’s simple conversational style makes it all the more appealing. — Archana Venkatraman ―
eLearning age magazine Published On: 2011-02-01…an impressive collection of essays by 25 adult learning specialists. — Brian Groombridge ―
The Association for Education & Ageing (AEA) Digest, Issue 33Remaking Adult Learning is an impressive collection of 26 essays by knowledgeable adult learning advocates, inspired in different ways by Alan Tuckett. — Brian Groombridge ―
Political Quarterly, 82:3 Published On: 2011-09-01A collection of essays, portraits and interviews…Nobody has expressed better than Stephen McNair the moral, economic and health-related imperatives that justify the pressing need for a shift in educational policy and practice to become genuinely life-long and life-wide, as well as life-deep, as Shirley Walters contends in another chapter. — Bob Fryer ―
Adults Learning Published On: 2011-05-01About the Author
Ursula Howard has worked in adult learning since the 1970s literacy movement. She has been a teacher, manager and research in adult and further education and community publishing. From 2003-8 she was director of the National Research and Development Centre for Adult Literacy and Numeracy. She is now a Visiting Professorial Fellow at the IOE and a consultant on basic skills policy internationally.
John Field is Professor of Lifelong Learning at the University of Stirling and Visiting Professor of Continuing Education, Birkbeck, University of London. He has published many studies of the social and economic contexts of adult learning, as well as on its history. He contributed to the national inquiry into the future of lifelong learning, and has also advised a number of policy bodies.
Peter Lavender is deputy chief executive at NIACE, formerly responsible for research and development. He joined NIACE in 1999 from the full-time further education inspectorate.
Sue Meyer has a background in local authority adult education. She was deputy director of NIACE for ten years before retiring in 2009. Prior to working at NIACE she was head of Adult Education for Norfolk County Council.
