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Positive education: A new look at Freedom to Learn (2020)
Journal Article
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/10.1080/03054985.2020.1726310

Recent 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.

Counselling training in higher education in the United Kingdom: Challenges and opportunities for research (2018)
Journal Article
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)
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.

Local and global in the formation of a learning theorist: Peter Jarvis and adult education (2017)
Journal Article
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/10.1080/02601370.2017.1299994

Peter 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.

The misuses of sustainability: adult education, citizenship and the dead hand of neoliberalism (2016)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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-z

The 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)
Journal Article
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/10.1177/0741713615624207

To 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 lost honour of the social dimension: Bologna, exports and the idea of the university (2014)
Journal Article
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/10.1080/02601370.2013.873210

In 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)
Journal Article
Milana, M., Rasmussen, P., & Holford, J. (2014). Public policy and the ‘sustainability’ of adult education. Encyclopaideia, 18(40), https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.1825-8670/4658

Sustainable 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.