Storm on the Island -- The Lived Experience of Working-Class Adult Learners in Higher Education

Autor/in	Speirs, Neil M.
Titel	Storm on the Island -- The Lived Experience of Working-Class Adult Learners in Higher Education
Quelle	In: Adult Learner: The Irish Journal of Adult and Community Education, (2021), S.107-131 (25 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0790-8040
Schlagwörter	Working Class; Adult Students; Adult Learning; Higher Education; COVID-19; Pandemics; Social Differences; Attribution Theory; Experience; Autobiographies; Ethnography; Social Structure; Social Isolation + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Arbeiterklasse; Adult; Adults; Student; Students; Erwachsenenalter; Studentin; Schüler; Schülerin; Adulte education; Adult training; Erwachsenenbildung; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Sozialer Unterschied; Erfahrung; Autobiography; Autobiografie; Autobiographie; Ethnografie; Sozialstruktur; Soziale Isolation
Abstract	This paper draws on both a theoretical understanding and a semi-autoethnographic approach of the lived experience of working class adult learners in higher education during the COVID-19 global pandemic. In particular, the paper warns of the doxic notion of current working class struggles being singularly attributed to COVID-19. Rather it is vital to assert that the societal structures that frame and reproduce inequality -- written by the dominant classes and cultures -- are the root of the problem. The daily struggles of working class adult learners have been amplified by the pandemic, but through Freire's love as a political force, there is space for radical hope. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01