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Workers’ education and the transmission of culture: The state, civil society and self-determination (2025)
Journal Article
Clancy, S. (2025). Workers’ education and the transmission of culture: The state, civil society and self-determination. International Review of Education, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11159-025-10146-5

The nature, type and purpose of workers’ education has been a significant point of debate in the International Review of Education (IRE) over the last seventy years, generating philosophical, psychological and sociological examinations from a series... Read More about Workers’ education and the transmission of culture: The state, civil society and self-determination.

Unravelling the Data Puzzle: A Total Survey Error Perspective on Adult Learning and Education Participation in the UK (2025)
Journal Article
Baldan Babayigit, B., Boeren, E., Clancy, S., Evangelista, Z., Holford, J., & Capsada-Munsech, Q. (2025). Unravelling the Data Puzzle: A Total Survey Error Perspective on Adult Learning and Education Participation in the UK. International Journal of Lifelong Education, 44(3), 273–290. https://doi.org/10.1080/02601370.2025.2493798

This paper investigates the methodological discrepancies underlying the measurement of adult learning and education (ALE) participation in the UK by focusing on four major surveys—APiL, PIAAC, AES, and LFS. Grounded in the Total Survey Error (TSE) fr... Read More about Unravelling the Data Puzzle: A Total Survey Error Perspective on Adult Learning and Education Participation in the UK.

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'.

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.