This book is an interesting contribution to unveiling the changing landscape for adult educators’ work, professional development and career progression in two national contexts under heavy neoliberal influences, England and New Zealand. It draws on qualitative research undertaken by the author in 2011–12, but benefits also from the author’s managerial experience in community-based adult education in England, and in adult and community education teaching and research in New Zealand. Professional interest in and passion for giving visibility to the perspectives of adult educators, while enquiring the broader socio-political context that frames their practice, is evidenced all through the book, as is the positioning of the author as an insider of the phenomenon under consideration, with her own values, political awareness and preferences.
Adult Education in Changing Times: Policies, Philosophies and Professionalism, M. Bowl (2014)
MILANA, MARCELLA
2015-01-01
Abstract
This book is an interesting contribution to unveiling the changing landscape for adult educators’ work, professional development and career progression in two national contexts under heavy neoliberal influences, England and New Zealand. It draws on qualitative research undertaken by the author in 2011–12, but benefits also from the author’s managerial experience in community-based adult education in England, and in adult and community education teaching and research in New Zealand. Professional interest in and passion for giving visibility to the perspectives of adult educators, while enquiring the broader socio-political context that frames their practice, is evidenced all through the book, as is the positioning of the author as an insider of the phenomenon under consideration, with her own values, political awareness and preferences.
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