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Lifelong Learning and Dementia: A Posthumanist Perspective
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. 
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Lifelong Learning and Dementia: A Posthumanist Perspective
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. 
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Lifelong Learning and Dementia: A Posthumanist Perspective

Lifelong Learning and Dementia: A Posthumanist Perspective

Lifelong Learning and Dementia: A Posthumanist Perspective

Lifelong Learning and Dementia: A Posthumanist Perspective

Overview

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. 

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9783030422318
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot
Publication date: 03/22/2020
Series: Palgrave Studies in Adult Education and Lifelong Learning
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
File size: 265 KB

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

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
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