عنوان

Women, adult education and really useful knowledge :

Number

TLets319803

Title Proper

Women, adult education and really useful knowledge :

General Material Designation

[Thesis]

First Statement of Responsibility

Barr, Jean

Title Proper by Another Author

an essay concerning feminist pedagogy, epistemology, research, etc.

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

University of Stirling

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

1996

Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree

Ph.D.

Body granting the degree

University of Stirling

Text preceding or following the note

1996

Text of Note

The thesis offers a post hoc account of three pieces of research relating to women's adult education which were camed out by the author over a penod of about fifteen years. In the process the thesis engages with a number of themes and issues in and around feminist theory and practite and adult education theory and practice. Radical traditions in adult education - particularly femimst-inspired traditions - are examined as spaces for the democratic production of "really useful knowledge". Changing meanings of feminist research and radical adult education are explored, as is the relationship between abstract knowledge and everyday knowledge. Developments in feminist epistemology are drawn on and related to a social justice agenda for adult education Through a critique of my own practice. I suggest that feminists and adult educators are well-placed to pursue a democratising project geared to including previously excluded groups in the production of legitimated knowledge. The thesis argues that we need to develop an understanding of our practices which combines historical, contextual understandings with an appreciation of what changed social and cultural conditions mean for the pursuit of any democratic knowledge-producing project.

Adult education

Feminism and education

Feminist theory

Knowledge, Sociology of

Barr, Jean

University of Stirling

Electronic name

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[Thesis]

276903

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