Download e-book for iPad: Gender, Experience, and Knowledge in Adult Learning: by Elana Michelson

In this wide-ranging publication, Elana Michelson invitations us to revisit simple understandings of the `experiential learner’. How does event emerge as obvious because the foundation of data? How do gender, classification, and race input into the ways that wisdom is valued? What political and cultural trust structures underlie such practices because the evaluation of earlier studying and the writing of lifestyles narratives?

Drawing on various disciplines, from feminist conception and the politics of information to literary feedback, Michelson argues that individual understandings of `experiential studying’ were crucial to fashionable Western cultures and the ability relationships that underlie them. awarded in 4 elements, this not easy and vigorous e-book asks educators of adults to imagine in new methods approximately their assumptions, theories, and practices:

• Part I offers readers with a quick background of the concept of experiential learning.








• Part II brings the insights and issues of feminist thought to endure on mainstream theories of experiential learning.








• Part III examines the review of previous experiential studying for educational credits and/or specialist credentials.








• Part IV addresses a moment pedagogical perform that's ubiquitous in grownup studying, particularly, the assigning of lifestyles narratives.

Gender, adventure, and data in grownup Learning may be of price to students and graduate scholars exploring grownup and experiential studying, in addition to teachers wishing to introduce scholars to a huge variety of feminist, critical-race, materialist and postmodernist considering within the box.