Social Science Theories in Adult Education Research (Bochum Studies in International Adult Education, Vol. 3) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3825857875 ISBN 13: 9783825857875

Publisher: Lit Verlag, 2002

Synopsis

The relationship between adult education research and theory is one of tension. On the one hand, there are several empirical studies carried out without any theoretical guidance. On the other hand, there is theorizing and theory building taking place without any empirical support.Social Science Theories in Adult Education Research, the third volume of the Bochum Studies in International Adult Education series, pleads for the importance of the combination of empirical and theoretical work in a symbiotic way. Good empirical studies need theoretical guidance and good theory building needs a solid empirical basis; thus the book explores and displays the most often used theories and theoretical perspectives in adult education research in the last decade within the European discourse and analyzes their potentials for adult education research.The chapters presented in this volume have a more or less similar underlying structure. They display the most important contours of the theory or perspective in question; they analyze and discuss the relation to adult education research, focusing on examples of other researcher's work; and they give an outlook on what can be expected of the respective paradigm's in the future.

About this edition

• Publisher: Lit Verlag
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 3825857875
• ISBN 13: 9783825857875
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 344
• Editor: Bron Agnieszka, Schemmann Michael