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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.

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