Richard G. Bagnall Livres

Focusing on the ethical implications of lifelong learning ideology, this work critiques 21 educational policy and management trends that arise from it. The author argues that these trends create unavoidable ethical dilemmas for educators and participants, which cannot be fully resolved but can be managed. By understanding these dilemmas, educators, policymakers, and managers can navigate the complexities of educational reforms more effectively, potentially alleviating the challenges and frustrations often linked to these changes.

Discovering Radical Contingency examines the implications of postmodern culture for education, particularly those involving adult learners. Against a critical review of modernist culture and education, a comparative account of the postmodern is posited. That account is reconfigured as a set of six tensions. These tensions are then used in exploring the nature of educational practice and engagement in postmodernity, from different through dialogues with students of that practice; through case studies of practice; as descriptive tendencies of engagement; and as nodal forms of programmatic activity. The book closes with chapters examining the nature of educational research and the professional development of adult educators in postmodernity.