Adult Education as Socialization: Implications for Personal and Social Change

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  • John R. Minnis The University of Manitoba

DOI :

https://doi.org/10.11575/jet.v24i2.44276

Résumé

The process of education, including many forms of adult education, inevitably involves the adoption and possibly the transmission of certain explicit or implicit values. Efforts to distance adult education from youth education, in theory and in practice, have meant that important concepts from socialization theory and curriculum theory have been largely ignored by adult educators. In this paper, this gap is bridged through a synthesis of the ideas of Brim, Berger and Luckmann, and Bourdieu. As well, the utility of these ideas is discussed with regard to an issue of supreme importance to adult educators: the relationship between adult education and social change.

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2018-05-16

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