On the incommensurability of adult education researchers’ worlds

dc.creator	Mieczyslaw Malewski
dc.date	2010-09-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned	2015-07-20T22:16:02Z
dc.date.available	2015-07-20T22:16:02Z
dc.identifier	2000-7426
dc.identifier	https://doaj.org/article/c87b635fd1eb45c689db1bbbc0986130
dc.identifier.uri	http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/18146
dc.description	The article consists of two parts. The first part shows how the idea of lifelong learning turns away from an earlier understanding of adult education, replacing it with a new vision of learning activities as natural processes of participation in culture. For adult education as a research field this means a paradigmatic shift that is radical, thus difficult and costly. A transition from teaching to learning lays the foundations for a discourse that implicates a reconceptualisation of the most basic theoretical categories and methodological competences of research practices. This change of leading research paradigm creates a situation that each discipline finds difficult. Analysis presented in the second part of the paper describes the situation among Polish researchers in the field of the education of adults. Describing the divided research community, the author emphasizes the difficult position of young researchers and proposes a typology of their attitudes towards their professional roles and academic career.
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	Linköping University Electronic Press
dc.relation	http://dx.doi.org/10.3384/rela.2000-7426.rela0023
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/2000-7426
dc.rights	CC BY-NC
dc.source	European Journal for Research on the Education and Learning of Adults, Vol 1, Iss 1-2, Pp 53-66 (2010)
dc.subject	Adult learning
dc.subject	paradigmatic community
dc.subject	paradigmatic shift
dc.subject	adult education research
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.title	On the incommensurability of adult education researchers’ worlds
dc.type	article