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Direct linkMcLean, Scott; Dixit, Jaya – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2018
In this article, we explore the relationship between adult education and socioeconomic precariousness, through extending existing scholarship regarding the concept of the hidden curriculum. We analyze transcripts of 134 qualitative interviews undertaken to explore the learning experiences associated with reading self-help books in the domains of…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Socioeconomic Status, Hidden Curriculum, Learning Experience
Lee, Moosung – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2017
This article explores and explains the subjectivity of self-helping adult learners, as depicted in contemporary, best-selling self-help books. It interrogates how those self-help texts embody particular features of self-helping subjectivity by appropriating neoliberalist perspectives on self and the world. It illuminates four salient features of…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, Bias, Self Help Programs, Help Seeking
