Critical Perspectives on Further Education and Training

This book is essential reading for educators, student teachers, policymakers, and anyone with an interest in critical viewpoints on adult, community, and further education.

Written from an Irish vantage point, the book explores important topics that include current policy and practice trends, further education teacher/tutor identity and conditions of work, and the need for an approach to our work that responds to environmental concerns and the ongoing growth in financial inequality. The book turns the inside out and the outside in by encouraging educators to consider the dynamics and experiences of the world outside the classroom walls in the group settings that adult learners occupy in further education colleges, places of work, community education, and beyond. Critical Perspectives on Further Education and Trainingoffers valuable insights into critical pedagogy, groupwork, curriculum, and assessment design, and reflective practice all of which enhances our practices and creates engaged, democratic learning environments.

Contributors to the book bridge academic and FET realms ensuring our insights are relevant and grounded in the day-to-day work of adults, community, and further education in Ireland and beyond.