Donovan Plumb

TL;DR: The authors argue that popular neoliberal ideologies create an environment in which lifelong learners strive for the learning city as an end product, both in production and for consumption, rather than embracing it as a living, social context.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the interaction between organizational policies and daily work practices of paramedics and firefighters within two emergency response organizations and find that they learn in practice through increasing collaboration with others, and in broader context of legitimate peripheral participation.

TL;DR: Learning as Dwelling as discussed by the authors is a particularly powerful way of characterising human learning processes, which suggests that, from the outset, humans are inextricably entwined in the processes of reality and that learning for dwellers is not a process of incorporating external knowledge into their minds.

TL;DR: This article argued that the fact of our essential neediness and vulnerability as human beings needs to be deeply appreciated if adult educators hope to sustain a meaningful and emancipatory social purpose for their field.