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Understanding Adult Learning in the Midst of Complex Social “Liquid Modernity”
Author(s) -
Nicolaides Aliki,
Marsick Victoria J.
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
new directions for adult and continuing education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1536-0717
pISSN - 1052-2891
DOI - 10.1002/ace.20172
Subject(s) - modernity , sociocultural evolution , social change , sociology , face (sociological concept) , politics , adult learning , social theory , adult education , late modernity , epistemology , psychology , pedagogy , social science , political science , anthropology , philosophy , law
This chapter describes the changing nature of adult education theory and practice in the face of complex, disruptive change and explores theories that are suited to tectonic shifts in a period of what we describe as “liquid modernity” in the midst of complex sociocultural‐economic‐political change in a global environment.