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ERIC Number: EJ514312
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1995
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Reference Count: 0
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ISSN: ISSN-0266-0830
The Validation of Learner Experience: A Conservative Practice?
Avis, James
Studies in the Education of Adults, v27 n2 p173-86 Oct 1995
Examines relations between educational practice and learner experience/knowledge, including positivism, empiricism, identity politics, and dialog. Suggests that pedagogy that fails to examine the discursive production of experience is conservative. (SK)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Dialogs (Language), Educational Practices, Experience, Experiential Learning
Publication Type: Opinion Papers; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Discourse; Emancipatory Education