Ethical practice in adult lifelong learning: a reflection on its shifting nature and significance for the future
It is argued here that ethical practice and being in adult lifelong learning are best understood as a feature of competing adult lifelong learning epistemologies informing practice and engagement in the field at all levels. The conceptions of ethics immanent to the epistemologies are not directly identifiable with any of the normative theories of modernist ethics, although they are tangentially informed by the critique generated in and between those theories. Of the five epistemologies and conceptions of ethics identified as important in the field, disciplinary, developmental and emancipatory ... Show more
Authors: Bagnall, Richard G.; Hodge, Steven; O'Regan, Paddy
Published: Abingdon, England, Taylor and Francis, 2022
Resource type: Article
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