Forty years of the International Journal of Lifelong Education: reflections on a changing field
(2022)
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Holford, J., Hodge, S., Milana, M., Waller, R., & Webb, S. (2022). Forty years of the International Journal of Lifelong Education: reflections on a changing field. International Journal of Lifelong Education, 41(1), 1-4. https://doi.org/10.1080/02601370.2022.2040964
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Positive education: A new look at Freedom to Learn (2020)
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Joseph, S., Murphy, D., & Holford, J. (2020). Positive education: A new look at Freedom to Learn. Oxford Review of Education, 46(5), 549-562. https://doi.org/10.1080/03054985.2020.1726310Recent years have seen much interest in positive education. In this article, we will show how person-centred education, like positive education, is concerned with the promotion of human flourishing. Both offer ways in which education goes beyond trad... Read More about Positive education: A new look at Freedom to Learn.
The Good University: what universities actually do and why it’s time for radical change: by Raewyn Connell, London, ZED, 2019, 240 pp., £12.99 (Paperback), ISBN: 9781786995407 (2019)
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Holford, J. (2020). The Good University: what universities actually do and why it’s time for radical change: by Raewyn Connell, London, ZED, 2019, 240 pp., £12.99 (Paperback), ISBN: 9781786995407. Educational Review, 72(2), 264-266. https://doi.org/10.1080/00131911.2019.1654690
Conceptualising lifelong learning for sustainable development and education 2030 (2019)
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Webb, S., Holford, J., Hodge, S., Milana, M., & Waller, R. (2019). Conceptualising lifelong learning for sustainable development and education 2030. International Journal of Lifelong Education, 38(3), 237-240. https://doi.org/10.1080/02601370.2019.1635353
“An inseparable aspect of citizenship”: marking a centenary in “universal and lifelong” adult education (2019)
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Holford, J., Hodge, S., Milana, M., Waller, R., & Webb, S. (2019). “An inseparable aspect of citizenship”: marking a centenary in “universal and lifelong” adult education. International Journal of Lifelong Education, 38(2), 127-131. https://doi.org/10.1080/02601370.2019.1619301
Address at the funeral of Peter Jarvis : Methodist Church, Thatcham, England, 12th December 2018 (2018)
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Holford, J. (2018). Address at the funeral of Peter Jarvis : Methodist Church, Thatcham, England, 12th December 2018 . International Journal of Lifelong Education, 37(6), 659-661. https://doi.org/10.1080/02601370.2018.1570698
Counselling training in higher education in the United Kingdom: Challenges and opportunities for research (2018)
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Joseph, S., Murphy, D., & Holford, J. (2018). Counselling training in higher education in the United Kingdom: Challenges and opportunities for research. Counselling and Psychotherapy Research, 18(4), 387-394. https://doi.org/10.1002/capr.12189© 2018 British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy Many Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) in the United Kingdom (UK) now offer undergraduate and postgraduate courses in counselling. However, counselling is a relatively new and developing p... Read More about Counselling training in higher education in the United Kingdom: Challenges and opportunities for research.
“Life-changing things happen”: The role of residential education in the transformation of adults’ learning and lives (2018)
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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.
Economic theory, neoliberalism and the interests of educators (2018)
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Hodge, S., Holford, J., Milana, M., Waller, R., & Webb, S. (2018). Economic theory, neoliberalism and the interests of educators. International Journal of Lifelong Education, 37(3), 279-282. https://doi.org/10.1080/02601370.2018.1484009
Adult education and learning: endorsing its contribution to the 2030 Agenda (2017)
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Milana, M., Holford, J., Hodge, S., Waller, R., & Webb, S. (2017). Adult education and learning: endorsing its contribution to the 2030 Agenda. International Journal of Lifelong Education, 36(6), 625-628. https://doi.org/10.1080/02601370.2017.1405869
Review of "Chile in my Heart: A memoir of love and revolution", by Kate Clark, Bannister Publications, Chesterfield, 2013, x + 213 pp., 85 illustrations, £11.99, ISBN 978-1-909813-02-1 (pbk) (2017)
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Holford, J. (2017). Review of "Chile in my Heart: A memoir of love and revolution", by Kate Clark, Bannister Publications, Chesterfield, 2013, x + 213 pp., 85 illustrations, £11.99, ISBN 978-1-909813-02-1 (pbk). Socialist History,
Local and global in the formation of a learning theorist: Peter Jarvis and adult education (2017)
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Holford, J. (2017). Local and global in the formation of a learning theorist: Peter Jarvis and adult education. International Journal of Lifelong Education, 36(1-2), 2-21. https://doi.org/10.1080/02601370.2017.1299994Peter Jarvis is a towering figure in the study of adult and lifelong education and a leading and original theorist of learning. This paper sets out his intellectual and professional biography, maps the main contours of his work and introduces fourtee... Read More about Local and global in the formation of a learning theorist: Peter Jarvis and adult education.
NIACE: ‘atque in perpetuum frater ave atque vale’ (2016)
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Holford, J., Hodge, S., Milana, M., Waller, R., & Webb, S. (2016). NIACE: ‘atque in perpetuum frater ave atque vale’. International Journal of Lifelong Education, 35(4), 355-358. https://doi.org/10.1080/02601370.2016.1223442
The misuses of sustainability: adult education, citizenship and the dead hand of neoliberalism (2016)
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Holford, J. (2016). The misuses of sustainability: adult education, citizenship and the dead hand of neoliberalism. International Review of Education, 62(5), 541-561. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11159-016-9591-4‘‘Sustainability’’ has a captivating but disingenuous simplicity: its meanings are complex, and have political and policy significance. Exploring the application of the term to adult education, this paper argues that a particular discourse of ‘‘susta... Read More about The misuses of sustainability: adult education, citizenship and the dead hand of neoliberalism.
The role of adult education and learning policy in fostering societal sustainability (2016)
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Milana, M., Rasmussen, P., & Holford, J. (2016). The role of adult education and learning policy in fostering societal sustainability. International Review of Education, 62(5), 523-540. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11159-016-9588-zThe idea of “sustainability” as a core value has slowly permeated policy and practice at governmental and institutional levels, in public and private policy. However, at times when social and economic crises have revealed the fragility of existing in... Read More about The role of adult education and learning policy in fostering societal sustainability.
Vocationalism varies (a lot): a 12-country multivariate analysis of participation in formal adult learning (2016)
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Boeren, E., & Holford, J. (2016). Vocationalism varies (a lot): a 12-country multivariate analysis of participation in formal adult learning. Adult Education Quarterly, 66(2), 120-142. https://doi.org/10.1177/0741713615624207To encourage adult participation in education and training, contemporary policy makers typically encourage education and training provision to have a strongly vocational (employment-related) character, while also stressing individuals’ responsibility... Read More about Vocationalism varies (a lot): a 12-country multivariate analysis of participation in formal adult learning.
The University of Nottingham and adult education (2014)
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Holford, J. (2014). The University of Nottingham and adult educationThis article examines twentieth century British university adult education, using the University of Nottingham as a case study. From around the time of the First World War until the 1990s, universities’ ‘adult education’ or ‘extra-mural’ departments... Read More about The University of Nottingham and adult education.
Adult and lifelong education: the European Union, its member states and the world (2014)
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Holford, J., Milana, M., & Mohorčič Špolar, V. (2014). Adult and lifelong education: the European Union, its member states and the world. International Journal of Lifelong Education, 33(3), https://doi.org/10.1080/02601370.2014.911518
The lost honour of the social dimension: Bologna, exports and the idea of the university (2014)
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Holford, J. (2014). The lost honour of the social dimension: Bologna, exports and the idea of the university. International Journal of Lifelong Education, 33(1), https://doi.org/10.1080/02601370.2013.873210In important respects, European ideas of the university have spread across the world. The principal ‘philosophical’ statements on which this idea of the university is based (Humboldt and Newman) assumed the people inhabiting universities — as student... Read More about The lost honour of the social dimension: Bologna, exports and the idea of the university.
Public policy and the ‘sustainability’ of adult education (2014)
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Milana, M., Rasmussen, P., & Holford, J. (2014). Public policy and the ‘sustainability’ of adult education. Encyclopaideia, 18(40), https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.1825-8670/4658Sustainable growth and development are intrinsically linked with the ways societal problems are thought of and addressed in public and private policy. However, at times when social and economic crises have shown the fragility of existing institutions... Read More about Public policy and the ‘sustainability’ of adult education.