Ms SHARON CLANCY's Outputs (24)

Research Handbook on Adult Learning and Education (2025)
Book
James, N., Orr, K., & Clancy, S. (Eds.). (2025). Research Handbook on Adult Learning and Education. Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800886667

This innovative Research Handbook rethinks current paradigms in adult education, providing a toolkit for responding to the challenges and opportunities for adult education and lifelong learning amidst a changing world. Contributing authors analyse ke... Read More about Research Handbook on Adult Learning and Education.

Lived Experience, Lifelong Learning, Community Activism and Social Change (2024)
Book
Clancy, S., & Jones, I. (Eds.). (2024). Lived Experience, Lifelong Learning, Community Activism and Social Change. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781032715605

This book identifies and celebrates the learning adult educators can gain from the numerous sites of community activism, learning, and social change that are currently taking place across the globe.

While the relentless push of neoliberalism has s... Read More about Lived Experience, Lifelong Learning, Community Activism and Social Change.

Sir George Trevelyan, Residential Adult Education and the New Age – ‘To Open the Immortal Eye' (2023)
Book
Clancy, S. (2023). Sir George Trevelyan, Residential Adult Education and the New Age – ‘To Open the Immortal Eye'. (1). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-35955-2

This book examines the development of British post-Second World War short-term residential adult education, through the lens of the Shropshire Adult Education College (1948-1976) and the tenure of Sir George Trevelyan as its first warden. Trevelyan i... Read More about Sir George Trevelyan, Residential Adult Education and the New Age – ‘To Open the Immortal Eye'.

Contextualising the struggle to improve adult education provision–global perspectives (2023)
Journal Article
Clancy, S., James, N., & Zarifis, G. K. (2023). Contextualising the struggle to improve adult education provision–global perspectives. Studies in the Education of Adults, 55(1), 1-4. https://doi.org/10.1080/02660830.2023.2202904

Exploring the identity of an undergraduate education programme (2023)
Book Chapter
Elliott, J., Knight, R., Clancy, S., & Morley, C. (2023). Exploring the identity of an undergraduate education programme. In M. Pulsford, R. Morris, & R. Purves (Eds.), Understanding Education Studies: Critical Issues and New Directions (21-29). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003296935-5

Lifelong Learning, Young Adults and the Challenges of Disadvantage in Europe (2023)
Book
Holford, J., Boyadjieva, P., Clancy, S., Hefler, G., & Studená, I. (Eds.). (2023). Lifelong Learning, Young Adults and the Challenges of Disadvantage in Europe. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-14109-6

Presents the results of a trans-European research project. Provides innovative insights into EU policy processes and their outcomes. Includes contributions from leading scholars in the field.

Being Part of the Social Change: Adult Education and Lessons from History (2023)
Book Chapter
CLANCY, S. (2023). Being Part of the Social Change: Adult Education and Lessons from History. In J. Robbins, & A. Rogers (Eds.), Adult Learning and Social Change in the UK: National and Local Perspectives. (1). Bloomsbury Publishing

Special issue on lived experience, learning, community activism and social change (2022)
Journal Article
Clancy, S., Harman, K., & Jones, I. (2022). Special issue on lived experience, learning, community activism and social change. Studies in the Education of Adults, 54(2), 123-127. https://doi.org/10.1080/02660830.2022.2105551

Discourses, dialogue and diversity in biographical research: An ecology of life and learning (2022)
Journal Article
Clancy, S. (2022). Discourses, dialogue and diversity in biographical research: An ecology of life and learning. International Review of Education, 68, 489–492. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11159-022-09953-x

European Sectoral Social Partners in education promoting quality of academic teaching and management (2022)
Report
Stevenson, H., Clancy, S., & Vega Castillo, M. A. (2022). European Sectoral Social Partners in education promoting quality of academic teaching and management. Brussels, Belgium: European Federation of Education Employers

Politics, power and participation (2022)
Journal Article
Clancy, S., James, N., Thériault, V., & Zarifis, G. K. (2022). Politics, power and participation. Studies in the Education of Adults, 54(1), 1-3. https://doi.org/10.1080/02660830.2022.2042075

Decolonising globalised curriculum landscapes: The identity and agency of academics (2021)
Journal Article
Reyes Jr., V., Clancy, S., Koge, H., Richardson, K., & Taylor, P. (2021). Decolonising globalised curriculum landscapes: The identity and agency of academics. London Review of Education, 19(1), https://doi.org/10.14324/LRE.19.1.26

This article explores how academics in a higher education institution (HEI) make sense of the challenges that they encounter in a neoliberal context typified by an increasingly globalised curriculum landscape. Two key questions are explored: What are... Read More about Decolonising globalised curriculum landscapes: The identity and agency of academics.

The message or the bottle? Community, associationism and adult learning as “part of the process of social change” (2018)
Book Chapter
Clancy, S. (2018). The message or the bottle? Community, associationism and adult learning as “part of the process of social change”. In E. Boeren, & . N. James (Eds.), Being an adult learner in austere times : exploring the contexts of higher and community education (47-70). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97208-4_3

Raymond Williams argued that the “the impulse to adult education” was never solely focused on “remedying deficit, making up for inadequate educational resources in the wider society” (Williams, 1983, in McIlroy and Westwood (Eds), 1993, p. 257). Nor... Read More about The message or the bottle? Community, associationism and adult learning as “part of the process of social change”.

“Life-changing things happen”: The role of residential education in the transformation of adults’ learning and lives (2018)
Journal Article
Clancy, S. L., & Holford, J. (2018). “Life-changing things happen”: The role of residential education in the transformation of adults’ learning and lives. Education and Training, 60(6), 620-636. https://doi.org/10.1108/ET-03-2018-0069

© 2018, Emerald Publishing Limited. Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the implications for adults of learning in a residential context and whether the residential aspect intensifies the learning process, and can lead to enhanced person... Read More about “Life-changing things happen”: The role of residential education in the transformation of adults’ learning and lives.

Being a ‘backward traveller’: the politics of life history (2018)
Journal Article
Clancy, S. (2018). Being a ‘backward traveller’: the politics of life history. Post-16 Educator, 19-20

Sharon Clancy discusses how oral history approaches can be applied to both historical and contemporary research.

Raymond Williams: adult education and the public intellectual (2018)
Other
Clancy, S. (2018). Raymond Williams: adult education and the public intellectual. https://raymondwilliams.co.uk/2018/04/27/raymond-williams-adult-education-and-the-public-intellectual/

The time traveller’s life: why oral history is so vital (2018)
Journal Article
CLANCY, S. (2018). The time traveller’s life: why oral history is so vital. inTuition, Research supplement(3), 5

Adult education, spirit and the 'New Age': Sir George Trevelyan and the Shropshire Adult Education College at Attingham 1948-76 (2017)
Thesis
Clancy, S. L. Adult education, spirit and the 'New Age': Sir George Trevelyan and the Shropshire Adult Education College at Attingham 1948-76. (Thesis). University of Nottingham. https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1037847

This thesis presents an interdisciplinary study of post-Second World War short-term residential adult education, through an investigation of the Shropshire Adult Education College (SAEC), 1948-1976. This was located at Attingham Park, Atcham, Shropsh... Read More about Adult education, spirit and the 'New Age': Sir George Trevelyan and the Shropshire Adult Education College at Attingham 1948-76.

Social capital, bounded agency and fuzzy logic: making data work in real world applications (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Clancy, S., & Palmer, C. (2017, November). Social capital, bounded agency and fuzzy logic: making data work in real world applications. Paper presented at 1st European Symposium on Societal Challenges in Computational Social Science: Inequality and Imbalance

The power of language in the age of austerity: volunteers and practitioners reflect on UK civil society (2017)
Journal Article
Clancy, S. (2017). The power of language in the age of austerity: volunteers and practitioners reflect on UK civil society. Research for All, 1(2), 234-251. https://doi.org/10.18546/RFA.01.2.02

This article is offered as an example of practice-based research, focusing on the concept of praxis: the bringing together of research, theory and action. It does this by exploring the challenges of group work and collaborative thinking, sharing the... Read More about The power of language in the age of austerity: volunteers and practitioners reflect on UK civil society.