Harold W Stubblefield

Towards a History of Adult Education in America

The Search for a Unifying Principle

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Produktbeschreibung

Originally published in 1988 this book examines the work of the first generation adult education theorists and the traditions that their work helped establish.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jenny Stanford Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. August 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 295g
• ISBN-13: 9781138360150
• ISBN-10: 1138360155
• Artikelnr.: 60040759

Autorenporträt

Harold W. Stubblefield

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: Adult Education as Diffusion of Knowledge 1. The New School for
Social Research, James Harvey Robinson and the Humanizing of Knowledge 2.
The Carnegie Corporation, the American Association for Adult Education, and
the Promotion of an Idea of Adult Education 3. Lyman Bryson and the
Democracy of Culture Part 2: Adult Education as Liberal Education 4.
Everett Dean Martin and a Grown-Up Civilization 5. Robert Hutchins,
Mortimer Adler and 'Liberal Education Beyond Schooling' Through the Great
Books 6. Alexander Meiklejohn and John Walker Powell on Liberal Education
and the Study of Contemporary Society Part 3: Adult Education as Social
Education 7. Joseph K. Hart and the Community as Educator 8. Eduard C.
Lindeman and the Cultural Approach to Adult Education 9. Harry Overstreet
and the Determinative Concept of Maturity 10. Toward an Adult Education
Tradition