Adult Education as a Technology of the Self.

Tennant, Mark

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ERIC Number: EJ576725

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Publication Date: 1998

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Adult Education as a Technology of the Self.

Tennant, Mark

International Journal of Lifelong Education, v17 n6 p364-76 Nov-Dec 1998

Explores the postmodern critique of dominant conceptions of the self in adult education: psychological/humanistic and sociological/critical. Identifies valuable aspects of the critique, for example, showing how individuals participate in their own subjugation with adult educators as accomplices. (SK)

Descriptors: Adult Education, Individual Development, Postmodernism, Self Actualization, Theories, Transformative Learning

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Language: English

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