Briton, Derek,  1953- <br/><br/>
The modern practice of adult education :  a postmodern critique / 
Derek Briton. 
 - Albany :  State University of New York Press,  �1996. 
 - 1 online resource (xv, 156 pages) 
 - SUNY series, teacher empowerment and school reform .
 - Teacher empowerment and school reform. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 133-148) and index. 
<br/><br/>Ch. 1. Engaging the Question of Adult Education -- Ch. 2. The Fear of Falling into Error -- Ch. 3. Facing the Dilemma -- Ch. 4. Enlightenment and Modernity -- Ch. 5. Choosing a Research Paradigm -- Ch. 6. Toward a Postmodern Pedagogy of Engagement in Adult Education -- Postscript: Living through the Question of Adult Education. 
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<br/><br/> Briton challenges the dominant depoliticized vision of adult education, calling into question the modernist tenets and moral integrity of contemporary adult education practice. By examining his own struggle to escape the confines of modernist thought, the author delivers a succinct yet decisive critique of modern educational practice and challenges educators to reconceptualize their field of endeavor as a postmodern pedagogy of engagement. In refusing to deny its.  Conjectural foundations, to mask its tenuous structure, or to defend its precarious integrity, the book assumes a form that distinguishes it markedly from its modernist counterparts. In favoring commentary over empirical evidence, a multiplicity of voices over a prescriptive narrative, the development of an ethical attitude toward practice over formulaic prescriptions for practice, and inter- over intra-disciplinary sources to substantiate its claims, this work calls.  Into question a whole range of modernist predilections. By repeatedly breaching the narrowly prescribed parameters of adult education's orthodoxy and constantly promoting reflective inquiry, this book reveals how different, yet equally valid, forms of evidence can be drawn upon to develop an ethical postmodern perspective that calls the modern instrumental practice of adult education into question. 
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<br/><br/><br/>English. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0585042683 9780585042688 9780791430262 079143026X 9780791430255 0791430251 0791497577 9780791497579 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Adult education--Philosophy.<br/>Critical pedagogy.<br/>Postmodernism and education.<br/>Adult education--Research.<br/>�Education des adultes--Philosophie.<br/>P�edagogie critique.<br/>Postmodernisme et �education.<br/>�Education des adultes--Recherche.<br/>EDUCATION--Adult & Continuing Education.<br/>EDUCATION--Non-Formal Education.<br/>Adult education--Philosophy.<br/>Adult education--Research.<br/>Critical pedagogy.<br/>Postmodernism and education.<br/>Education.<br/>Social Sciences.<br/>Education, Special Topics.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Adult education  Philosophy Adult education  Research Critical pedagogy Postmodernism and education 
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>LC5219  / .B723 1996eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>374/.001