Description
Book SynopsisThis book contributes to the setting out of a new, better informed and complex basis for discussions about the relationships between the State, the civil society and the citizen in distinct European countries and regions. It will be useful to researchers in the field of adult education, as well as social scientists interested in topics related to civil society, such as NGOs, social economists, and practitioners concerned with the trends that are forcing adult education to recontextualise its aims and practices.
Table of ContentsContents: Paula Guimarães/Michał Bron Jr/Rui Vieira de Castro
: On the complexity of relationships between the State, civil society and the citizen within adult education – Jim Crowther/Ian Martin: Civil society and the State. Some implications for adult education – Carlos V. Estêvão:
Cosmopoliticity and adult education in the era of globalization – Manuel Barbosa: Education, citizenship and civil society. New meanings and new articulations – Andreas Fejes: Active democratic citizenship and lifelong learning. A governmentality analysis – Judith Walker: The needy and competent citizen in OECD educational policy documents – Paula Guimarães: Changes in public policies in Portugal. Adult education and training courses – Pelle Åberg: Co-operating across borders. Adult education and transnational civil society co-operation – Ola Segnestam Larsson:
Folkbildning as ideology – Emilio Lucio-Villegas/António Fragoso/Ana García Florindo: Participatory citizenship. Reflections on the participatory budget and adult education – Maria de Lourdes Dionísio/Rui Vieira de Castro: (Re)Defining literacy. New roles of the workplace – Armando Loureiro/Artur Cristóvão
: The use of the official pedagogical discourse by adult education agents. From reproduction to recontextualisation – Rob Evans: Educational cultures, system change and university professionals in East Germany after 1989.
