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Speirs, Neil M. – Adult Learner: The Irish Journal of Adult and Community Education, 2021
This paper draws on both a theoretical understanding and a semi-autoethnographic approach of the lived experience of working class adult learners in higher education during the COVID-19 global pandemic. In particular, the paper warns of the doxic notion of current working class struggles being singularly attributed to COVID-19. Rather it is vital…
Descriptors: Working Class, Adult Students, Adult Learning, Higher Education
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Freeman, Mark – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2020
This article -- the first part of a two-part contribution -- considers the current and past state of research on the history of adult education in Britain. Although there has been a broadening of interest among historians of adult education, the field remains to an extent in the shadow of the "Great Tradition" of liberal education…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Educational History, Historiography, Working Class