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Title: Adult Education and the Postmodern Challenge: Learning Beyond the Limits by Robin Usher, Ian Bryant, Rennie Johnston ISBN: 0415120217 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: March, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $30.95

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Summary: Thoughtful analysis of problems with adult learning.
Comment: The authors offer an insightful examination of some problems with structuring learning experiences for adults and associated difficulties with learning from research. Their discussion of disciplinarity --- and how it constructs or limits what is perceived as appropriate in various educational practices --- is quite interesting (it seems to me that since those doing the teaching are also "victims" of disciplinarity, it is inevitable that this cycle will be self-perpetuating). The discussion of reintroducing the self (personal experience) into the technical trajectory of research is also worthy of further consideration --- the authors note that many factors affecting the researcher [and thus the research "product" (e.g., tolerance for ambiguity)] are acknowledged privately as important, but not documented or really confronted when the research is reported or critiqued. I only wish the authors would bring their recommendations down a level in terms of methods for real-world application of these concepts in institutions where adults are attempting to learn.

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