In from the margins : : adult education, work and civil society / / edited by Ari Antikainen, Päivi Harinen, Carlos Alberto Torres.

• TeilnehmendeR: Harinen, Päivi,; Torres, Carlos Alberto,; Antikainen, Ari,
• Place / Publishing House: Rotterdam, Netherlands : : BRILL,, [2006]; ©2006
• Year of Publication: 2006
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource
• Notes: Includes index.

This book focuses at the margins of adult education, work and civil society. Rather than focusing on active participants and active participation, the objective is to scrutinize the whole adult population in terms of participation, and to pay special attention to those who are so easily left out of studies concerning adult education, learning at work or active participation in civil society. The aim of the book is to bring into the discussion the views of those who do not find attending adult education possible and who thus form a challenge for the promotion of active citizenship. In the collection of articles researchers from various disciplines and with cross-disciplinary interests in adult education and marginalisation meet and discuss with each other within and beyond their own disciplines.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Ari Antikainen , Päivi Harinen and Carlos Alberto Torres -- Adult education policy and globalization / Carlos Alberto Torres -- In whose interests? / Ian Martin -- Critical and cultural orientation in radical adult education / Rauno Huttunen and Juha Suoranta -- Lifelong learning and the low-skilled / Knud Jlleris -- Defending the radical margins of university adult education / Jim Crowther , Rennie Johnston , Ian Martin and Barbara Merrill -- Keeping the coals glowing / Zamokwakho Hlela and Sandra Land -- Citizenship and participation in lifelong learning / Lawrence J. Saha -- Immigrants entering civil society in the European context / Agnieszka Bron -- Civic participation / Päivi Harinen -- Dual citizens and education-active participants or at the margins of their own countries? / Jussi Ronkainen -- Participation in adult education in a Nordic context / Ari Antikainen -- Participation and non-participation in lifelong learning / Shui Kin Chan -- Lifelong learning in civil society organisations / Marion Fields -- The effectiveness of state intervention in integrating excluded groups / John Wallis -- In the margins, or not? / Leena Koski -- Education society's dissenters? / Mari Käyhkö -- Reaching the non-participant / Jane Elliott -- Education of older adults in Portugal / Esmeraldina Costa Veloso -- Too old to rock'n roll? / Juhani Rautopuro and Pertti Väisänen -- Museums and the unbearable lightness of inclusion / Sotiria Grek -- School and special education / Christian Quvang -- Self-taught life / Liisa Korhonen -- The challenge and practices for bridging digital divide in Taiwan / Yu-Hua Chen and Wen-Yin Chien -- Postgraduate study bye-learning in Greece / Marios Vryonides , Chryssi Vitsilakis and llias Efthimiou -- Overcoming digital divide / Jukka Oksa -- Subject index / Ari Antikainen , Päivi Harinen and Carlos Alberto Torres -- Author index / Ari Antikainen , Päivi Harinen and Carlos Alberto Torres.