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Lifelong Learning and Dementia
eBook - A Posthumanist Perspective, Palgrave Studies in Adult Education and Lifelong Learning
ISBN/EAN: 9783030422318
Umbreit-Nr.: 8959293
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 0 S., 1.16 MB
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Keine Angabe
Erschienen am 22.03.2020
Auflage: 1/2020
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Format: PDF
DRM: Digitales Wasserzeichen
- Zusatztext
- <div>This book explores the potential for lifelong learning in dementia. A growing social issue, dementia has previously been understood as a wasteland for learning: at best, those with dementia are helped to hold on to some pre-existing skills. This book draws on extensive qualitative data with people with dementia and their families to demonstrate that new forms of learning can happen in dementia, with positive outcomes for both the learner and those around them. In doing so, this book demonstrates that those with dementia help us to understand learning differently, thus providing a breakthrough in our understanding and theorising of lifelong learning. Using posthuman theory to scaffold and discuss the findings, this pioneering book will appeal to scholars of dementia, lifelong learning and the posthuman.&nbsp;<br></div>
- Kurztext
- This book explores the potential for lifelong learning in dementia. A growing social issue, dementia has previously been understood as a wasteland for learning: at best, those with dementia are helped to hold on to some pre-existing skills. This book draws on extensive qualitative data with people with dementia and their families to demonstrate that new forms of learning can happen in dementia, with positive outcomes for both the learner and those around them. In doing so, this book demonstrates that those with dementia help us to understand learning differently, thus providing a breakthrough in our understanding and theorising of lifelong learning. Using posthuman theory to scaffold and discuss the findings, this pioneering book will appeal to scholars of dementia, lifelong learning and the posthuman.&nbsp;
- Autorenportrait
- <div><b>Jocey Quinn</b> is Professor of Education at the University of Plymouth, UK. Her research focuses on adults in post-compulsory and informal contexts and on issues of knowledge transformation and social justice.<br></div><div><br></div><div><div><b>Claudia Blandon</b>is Research Assistant at the University of Plymouth, UK. Her research interests focus on education, evaluation research and the learning that occurs in contexts of displacement.</div><div><br></div></div>