Lifelong Learning and Dementia

A Posthumanist Perspective

Jocey Quinn, Claudia Blandon (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

XI, 98 Seiten

2020 | 1st ed. 2020
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-42230-1 (ISBN)

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This book explores the potential for lifelong learning in dementia. A growing social issue, dementia has previously been understood as a wasteland for learning: at best, those with dementia are helped to hold on to some pre-existing skills. This book draws on extensive qualitative data with people with dementia and their families to demonstrate that new forms of learning can happen in dementia, with positive outcomes for both the learner and those around them. In doing so, this book demonstrates that those with dementia help us to understand learning differently, thus providing a breakthrough in our understanding and theorising of lifelong learning. Using posthuman theory to scaffold and discuss the findings, this pioneering book will appeal to scholars of dementia, lifelong learning and the posthuman.

Jocey Quinn is Professor of Education at the University of Plymouth, UK. Her research focuses on adults in post-compulsory and informal contexts and on issues of knowledge transformation and social justice. Claudia Blandon is Research Assistant at the University of Plymouth, UK. Her research interests focus on education, evaluation research and the learning that occurs in contexts of displacement.

Chapter 1. Introduction to dementia and lifelong learning.- Chapter 2. A posthumanist perspective on dementia.- Chapter 3. Dementia and the post-verbal.- Chapter 4. Intergenerational learning and dementia.- Chapter 5. Conclusion

"This book represents the value posthumanism can bring to learning environments. It emphasizes learning as creativity in everyday life and criticizes stereotypes about learning and people with dementia. ... The text is a beautiful homage to people with dementia and affirms their position in society as valuable and worthy of education and attention." (Daisy Ahlstone, Disability Studies Quarterly, dsq-sds.org, Vol. 41 (1), 2021)

Erscheinungsdatum	24.03.2020
Reihe/Serie	Palgrave Studies in Adult Education and Lifelong Learning
Zusatzinfo	XI, 98 p.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	278 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung
Schlagworte	Dementia and care • Dementia and learning • Dementia and post-humanism • Geriatric care • Inter-generational learning through dementia • Learning beyond words • Learning in Old Age • Lifelong Learning
ISBN-10	3-030-42230-5 / 3030422305
ISBN-13	978-3-030-42230-1 / 9783030422301
Zustand	Neuware