Research Handbook on Adult Learning and Education

Edited by Nalita James, Centre for Lifelong Learning, University of Warwick, Kevin Orr, Visiting Professor, Huddersfield Centre for Research in Education and Society, University of Huddersfield and Sharon Clancy, School of Education, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Nottingham, UK

• ContentsIntroduction to the Research Handbook on Adult Learning and Education 1Sharon Clancy, Nalita James and Kevin OrrPART I PURPOSES OF ADULT EDUCATION1 Critical pedagogy: what makes it happen? Research using aninnovative, positive lens bricolage 10Paula McElearney2 Adults, digital exclusion and media literacy: moving beyond skill solutions 26Richard Sanders3 Towards effective continuing education and training provisions: thecase of Singapore 42Anthony Leow, Anh Hai Le and Stephen Billett4 Supporting learners in the Black community and learners with lived andliving experiences of homelessness through adult and lifelong education 56Tanya Matthews and Jayne Malenfant5 The ESOL Manifesto: activist professionalism in a sector under attack 64Rob Peutrell6 Adult education: learning to do, or learning to be? 72Nicola Robertson and Vijayita Prajapati7 Adult education and spirituality 82Cheryl Hunt8 Unlearning embodied separation of humans from the more-than-human world 95Shirley Walters and Sharon Clancy9 Green Changemakers: a paradigm shift in vocational education 101Juliet Atuguba, Helen Cresswell, Lou Mycroft, Dawood Sadiq and Jenny Willis10 The personal curriculum: the developmental pathways of experiencesacross working life 113Stephen BillettPART II SETTINGS FOR ADULT EDUCATION11 Using Bourdieu to understand (non-)participation in university highereducation throughout the lifecourse 127Wayne Bailey and Kate Lavender12 Community, university, and democracy in Ireland and the UK: a dialogue 141Sharon Clancy and Thomas Murray13 ‘Spaces where my thoughts have power’ – engaging with communitiesusing transformative pedagogy: universities and radical adult education 151Fiona Chapel14 Feminist adult education in museums: curating critique and possibility 164Darlene Clover15 Engaging the ‘wounded’ adult learner: lessons learnt from criticallyreflective, community-based, visual arts practice 179Nic DicksonPART III TENSIONS AND COMPROMISES BETWEEN CAPITALAND RADICAL EDUCATION16 Exploring community gardens as critical and complicated sites for adulteducation 192Mitchell McLarnon17 Practitioner identity and practitioner networks in the field of adultliteracy in Canada: a dialogue 202Stacey Crooks, Paula Elias and Annie Luk19 Adult education as a process of research and critical public pedagogy:knowledge co-production alongside refugees in the UK asylum system 211John Grayson19 Putting glitter on the shit: working in-against-and-beyond adulteducation in Scotland 225Sarah Galloway, Sarah McEwan, John Player, Helen Reid, Michael Harrisand Derek Keenan

‘This is a fascinating and rich volume. Its chapters explore too-often-ignored perspectives on, and areas of, adult education, from spirituality to visual arts, and from refugees to homelessness. They bring out the potentially paradigm-shifting role adult learning and education can have as a catalyst in society, politics and people’s lives.’