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Title: Ellen Boeren and Nalita James (Eds.) (2019) : Being an adult learner in austere times : Exploring the Contexts of Higher, further and community education [book review]
Authors: Abdellatif, Khalaf Mohamed
Keywords: Books -- Reviews
Adult learning
Community education
Issue Date: 2019-06
Publisher: University of Malta. Faculty of Education
Citation: Abdellatif, K. M. (2019). Ellen Boeren and Nalita James (Eds.) (2019) : Being an adult learner in austere times : Exploring the Contexts of Higher, further and community education [book review]. Malta Review of Educational Research, 13(1), 151-153.
Abstract: Over the past decade, the attention to adult education generally, and adult learners particularly, has faced a gradual decline. The recent discourse on adult education identifies some major socioeconomic factors and policies, for instance, neoliberalism and austerity which might be the major key elements in this decline. Accordingly, the current book aims to provide an overview of the current status of adult and community education in the times of austerity. This book comprises 8 chapters and a concluding chapter as well, most of these chapters have been developed from the standing conference on teaching and research in the education of adults which was held on 5-7 July 2016, at the University of Leicester in the UK. This book includes two sections, the first section comprises the first three chapters. It focuses mainly on being an adult learner in higher education, highlighting the British and European contexts. Hence, in their introductory chapter, the editors offer their framework and provide some critical arguments on the current situation of adult education and the discourse on austerity. Chapter 2, authored by Ellen Boeren, explores the current state-of-art of adult lifelong learning participation. She highlights how UNESCO and the OECD influenced the European Commission to conceptualize the measurement of participation in adult education. She argues that it is problematic to determine the availability of educational opportunities for adult learners. Moreover, Boeren discusses educational attainment, age, and employment as individual determinants of seeking participation in adult education and lifelong learning. She clarifies that “adults tend to make fewer investments in their work-related learning once they are closer to retirement age and both upskilling and retraining are thus more recognized by younger adults who want to make progress within their occupation” (p. 31).
URI: https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/45285
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