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  • Contemporary Adult and Lifelong Education and Learning: An Epistemological Analysis

    Author(s)
    Bagnall, RG
    Hodge, S
    Griffith University Author(s)
    Bagnall, Richard G.
    Hodge, Steven M.
    Year published
    2017
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    Abstract
    This chapter seeks to shed some light on the prevailing vocationalisation of adult and lifelong education and learning policy and provision. It does so through a framework of competing educational epistemologies, which are seen as being generated, shaped and selectively foregrounded through educational responses to the prevailing cultural context. Shifts in the nature of that context selectively favour different epistemologies, and may be used to explain: the historical hegemony of disciplinary epistemology; the episodic flourishing of constructivist and emancipatory epistemologies and—with the recent development of a ...
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    This chapter seeks to shed some light on the prevailing vocationalisation of adult and lifelong education and learning policy and provision. It does so through a framework of competing educational epistemologies, which are seen as being generated, shaped and selectively foregrounded through educational responses to the prevailing cultural context. Shifts in the nature of that context selectively favour different epistemologies, and may be used to explain: the historical hegemony of disciplinary epistemology; the episodic flourishing of constructivist and emancipatory epistemologies and—with the recent development of a neoliberal cultural context—also the shift from ‘education to learning’ in labelling the field, the contemporary ascendency of instrumental epistemology evident in the vocationalisation of the field, and the anticipated future decline of that epistemology, with the possible rise of a situational epistemology.
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    Book Title
    The Palgrave International Handbook on Adult and Lifelong Education and Learning
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-55783-4_2
    Subject
    Education systems
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/380774
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