Forty Years of the International Journal of Lifelong Education, Volume I

Reflections on a Changing Field

John Holford, Steven Hodge, Marcella Milana, Richard Waller, Sue Webb

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2024
• Print ISBN: 9781032854137
• eBook ISBN: 9781040154717
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Educational Policy

Over the last forty years, the International Journal of Lifelong Education has become a global leader in the field of research on adult education and lifelong learning. Drawing extensively on articles published in the journal, scholars from Africa, Asia, North and South America, Australasia and Europe reflect in two volumes on how the field has evolved over four decades, and on the strengths and weaknesses of its contributions to knowledge.

The first of two volumes, this book offers rich insights into the nature of lifelong education, its development over the forty years of the journal (and more), and what challenges the field will be called upon to address in the future. Chapters cover global trends that have influenced lifelong education; the nature of the field as reflected in publications, based on detailed quantitative analysis; why connection with radical social movements justifies continuing optimism in the field's capacity to help make a better world; the nature of ethical practice in the field; neuroscience research's significance for transformative learning theory; international organisations' role; the importance of critical social theory; and Paulo Freire's significance for the field.

The two volumes will appeal to researchers, teachers and professionals in lifelong learning and adult education, as well as to those interested in the development of knowledge in fields of science and practice.

Table of contents

• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Citation Information
• Notes on Contributors
• Introduction – forty years of the International Journal of Lifelong Education: reflections on a changing field
• 1 Understanding the evolving context for lifelong education: global trends, 1950–2020
• 2 Exploring the themes of the territory: a topic modelling approach to 40 years of publications in International Journal of Lifelong Education (1982–2021)
• 3 Learning about climate justice in times of drought and Covid-19
• 4 Ethical practice in adult lifelong learning: a reflection on its shifting nature and significance for the future
• 5 Emotions and lifelong learning: synergies between neuroscience research and transformative learning theory
• 6 Qualification, socialisation and/or subjectification – three international organisations’ prioritisation of the purposes of adult education and learning from the 1970s to the 2010s
• 7 Lifelong learning in a globalized world: the need for critical social theory in adult and lifelong education
• 8 The Wiley Handbook of Paulo Freire: Paulo Freire past, present and future
• Index