This volume shows the outcome of a series of meetings and seminars which, on several levels, contributed to the construction of the International Conference La ricerca sull’Educazione in età Adulta nelle università italiane held at the University of Florence on the 23rd and 24th November 2017. The different contributions have tried to answer the question on the origin and development of adult education in Italy within academic contexts. What does it mean to work in this research field? The interviewed directors have reflected on a number of research approaches and have reconstructed the variety of theories, models and authors which outlined the development of this discipline in Italy over the last fifty years. Among the covered topics are: increasing the educational quality of the workplace, understanding the education incorporated in the workplace, studying the aims of education in formal and informal contexts. This has led to a new and original theme, which had however not been touched by the Italian academic literature, namely the question of inequalities and relative poverty, two important phenomena for understanding the development of future societies.
University of Florence, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0001-5041-7443
Book Title
Educazione in età adulta
Book Subtitle
Ricerche, politiche, luoghi e professioni
Editors
Paolo Federighi
Peer Reviewed
Number of Pages
422
Publication Year
2018
Copyright Information
© 2018 Author(s)
Content License
Metadata License
Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/978-88-6453-752-8
ISBN Print
978-88-6453-751-1
eISBN (pdf)
978-88-6453-752-8
eISBN (epub)
978-88-6453-753-5
eISBN (xml)
978-88-9273-091-5
Series Title
Studies on Adult Learning and Education
Series ISSN
2704-596X
Series E-ISSN
2704-5781