Working and Educating for Life

Download or read book Working and Educating for Life written by Mechthild Hart and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-07 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1992, this book presents an alternative view of adult education. The author moves the analysis from the usual focus in adult education literature on skills and skill deficits, and concentrates instead on the educational potential of work itself. By linking issues of gender and the developing world, an alternative concept of work and productivity is formulated, serving as the basis for new approaches and paradigms in adult education. The book draws on two decades of studying critical social, political and economic, educational and feminist theory and examines the link between the international and sexual division of labour, and at the relationship between work, nature and technology.