Liberating Knowledge
research, feminism and adult education
$40.31
- Paperback
192 pages
- Release Date
5 July 1999
Summary
While knowledge can be liberating, what counts as knowledge is contestable. Drawing on her experience in adult education, research and feminist theory and practice, Jean Barr mounts a radical challenge to current orthodoxies in adult learning and continuing education and proposes a programme of research which is geared to articulating urgent problems with people other than academics. Running through the book is the recognition that methodology underpins all theory-making. Questions of whom we…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781862010468 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1862010463 |
| Author: | Jean Barr |
| Publisher: | National Institute of Adult Continuing Education |
| Imprint: | National Institute of Adult Continuing Education |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 5 July 1999 |
| Weight: | 299g |
| Dimensions: | 230mm |
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‘At a time when most writing about women’s education in the context of adult learning has become timid, technical and - it must be said - tedious, it is refreshing to re-discover ideas and analysis that are both engaging and challenging, as well as finely tuned and beautifully written.’ (Jane Thompson, Adults Learning)
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