Abstract

Emancipatory adult education resisted dominant forces by contesting their control of space and time. New technologies of speed enable dominant forces to control workers and consumers at a distance. Adult education must shift its understanding of the world from modern to postmodern categories to confront these new forms of dominance. (SK)

Citation

Plumb, D. (1999). Adult Education in a World "on Speed.". Studies in Continuing Education, 21(2), 141. Retrieved June 7, 2023 from https://www.learntechlib.org/p/91544/.

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Keywords

• Adult Education
• change
• Geographic Location
• Postmodernism
• Role of Education
• Technological Advancement
• Time