Adult Learning and Social Change in the UK

Jules Robbins is an independent researcher, UK, with over 25 years of experience teaching in secondary, primary and adult education. She is also a senior examiner of English. Alan Rogers was Visiting Professor at the University of East Anglia, UK and University of Nottingham, UK. He was a teacher, trainer and author in the field of adult education and international development with many years of experience working in Asia and Africa.

• List of TablesNotes on ContributorsAcknowledgementsSeries Editor ForewordPreface: The Changing World, Jules Robbins (independent researcher, UK) and Alan Rogers (University of East Anglia and University of Nottingham, UK)1. Being Part of the Social Change: Adult Education and Lessons from History, Sharon Clancy (University of Nottingham, UK)2. Radical Adult Education Practitioners in the UK: The International League for Social Commitment in Adult Education 1984-94, Alan Tuckett (University of Wolverhampton, UK)3. Adult Learning and Social Justice: Health, Wellbeing and the Inequalities of Power, Lyn Tett (University of Edinburgh and Huddersfield, UK)4. Learning English in a Hostile Environment: A Study of Volunteer ESOL Teachers of Refugees and Asylum Seekers in the UK, Lauren Bouttell (University of East Anglia, UK)5. A Refugee Third Sector Learning Ecology for Social Change: ‘Covert Activism’, Mary-Rose Puttick (Birmingham City University, UK)6. Discussion Groups with Older People: An Interface of Participatory Ageing and Social Change, Kathleen Lane (University of East Anglia, UK)7.Tales of Adult Learning, Relationships and Social Change within the National Citizen Service, Natasha Rennolds (University of East Anglia, UK)8. The Achievements of Informal Adult Reading Group Talk through Vernacular Expression: Challenging the Dominant Discourses of Literary Study, John Gordon (University of East Anglia, UK)9.Learning through the COVID-19 Pandemic: How the Pandemic Has Affected the Ways in which Adults Experience Learning in the UK, Karen Fairfax-Cholmeley and Clare Meade (freelance consultants, UK)10. Learning to Live Sustainably?: A Case Study of a Community Gardening Scheme in Norwich, Mahesh Pant (independent researcher, UK)Concluding Reflections, Alan Rogers (University of East Anglia and University of Nottingham, UK) and Jules Robbins (independent researcher, UK)Index

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