Beyond Fragments
Adults, Motivation And Higher Education
1st Edition
Published on 12. November 2012
250 pages
978-1-136-35023-8 (ISBN)
Description
Adults now constitute the majority of students in higher education; what they bring to it, want and need are important questions in the development of a more responsive higher education. The author discusses The Relationship Between Motives, Education, And Life History To Explore how culture and history shape people and their motives for learning, taking into account variations in gender, social background and ethnicity, challenging the orthodox view that non-traditional students enter higher educational for vocational/material reasons.
Reviews / Votes
'... [a] thorough and revealing study of adult students in higher education. West's study is worth singling out because, apart from its other virtues, it makes us stop and think about some of the ways in which people cateogorise learning and actively tackle it within the context of their daily lives, challenging us to look again at our interpretation of survey and other data ... Linden West's vivid and moving portrait of learner identities...' - Professor John Field, University of Warwick, for Adults' LearningMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Reflowable
File size
1,30 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-136-35023-8 (9781136350238)
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Content
Chapter 1 Thinking of Fragments; Chapter 2 Self, Method and Imaginative Empathy; Chapter 3 On Becoming a Solicitor; Chapter 4 Telling Stories; Chapter 5 Men Talking on the Medway; Chapter 6 Men Talking; Chapter 7 Part ners in Change; Chapter 8 Women in Professional and Personal Fragments; Chapter 9 Border Country; Chapter 10 East and West; Chapter 11 Red Pens and Relationships; Chapter 12 Beyond Fragments?;
