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dc.contributor.author | Borg, Carmel | - |
dc.contributor.author | Formosa, Marvin | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2015-02-12T13:30:07Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2015-02-12T13:30:07Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2013 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Lifelong Learning in Europe. 2013, (2). | en_GB |
dc.identifier.uri | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar//handle/123456789/1215 | - |
dc.description.abstract | In an age where the official, adult-education component of lifelong learning is dominated by the discourse of employability and performativity, reclaiming the radical agenda of critical, adult, active citizenship is not only urgent but indispensable for morally sound and democratically viable societies. The crisis in capitalism is showing us, adult educators, that unless adult education is employed to interrogate, challenge and resist the accesses of a system that privileges profit at all cost, rampant individualism and privatisation of social goods, it will reproduce asymmetrical and predatory, social economic relations. This paper problematises dominant notions of active citizenship in later life and provides a framework for an alternative view of active citizenship. It also illustrates how adult educators can facilitate learning processes where late-life learners, reflect on the impact of the neoliberal value system and on the consequences of its hegemonic practices on personal and community life, before engaging in transformative action. | en_GB |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Lifelong Learning in Europe | - |
dc.rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | en_GB |
dc.subject | Older people -- Education | en_GB |
dc.subject | Continuing education -- Malta | en_GB |
dc.subject | Citizenship -- Study and teaching | en_GB |
dc.title | Active citizenship and late-life learning in the community | en_GB |
dc.type | article | en_GB |
dc.rights.holder | The copyright of this work belongs to the author(s)/publisher. The rights of this work are as defined by the appropriate Copyright Legislation or as modified by any successive legislation. Users may access this work and can make use of the information contained in accordance with the Copyright Legislation provided that the author must be properly acknowledged. Further distribution or reproduction in any format is prohibited without the prior permission of the copyright holder. | en_GB |
dc.description.reviewed | peer-reviewed | - |
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