Adult Education as Vocation: A Critical Role for the Adult Educator.

Abstract

Part 1 The Current Crisis in Adult Education: Obsession with Technique and Shortfalls in Practice Fixation on Technique Erosion of Autonomous and Community Interests The Trappings - Co-optation and Consensus Professionalization, the Cult of Efficiency and Mandatory Continuing Education. Part 2 On Contemporay Practice and Research: Self-Directed Learning to Critical Theory Focus on the Learner - Self-Directed Learning Research to Practice in Adult Education. Part 3 Adult Education as Vocation: Role of the Adult Educator Retrieving a Sense of Mission The Issue of Competence Friends Educating Friends Theories of Action Perspectives Making Music Together. Part 4 Addressing Needs, Program Design and Evaluation: Assessing Needs Program Planning Program Evaluation. Part 5 The Critical Turn - Re-viewing Professionalization: Training and the Problem of Competence Professionalization or Professionalism? Training The Problem of Competence. Part 6 Adult Life-World Concerns and Protection of the Commons: Questioning the Taken-for-Granted Critical Adult Education - Outlines of a Transformative Pedagogy Constituencies of a Transformative Pedagogy The Promise and Limitations of Critical Theory Alternatives to a Non-Critical Practice.

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