Building a knowledge base in US academic adult education (1945–70)
Grace A.P.
1999
Studies in the Education of Adults
2
10.1080/02660830.1999.11661414
Knowledge production in US academic adult education (1945–70) altered significantly in the light of apparently pervasive and permanent post-war economic and cultural change forces that transformed both the individual and the social. This paper explores this in relation to a post-war knowledge explosion that equated knowledge with productivity in a way that raised serious questions around which knowledge was of most worth. It reflects critically on the cultural politics of field knowledge production, which equated building a techno-scientific knowledge base with building collateral to leverage dominant cultural space and place. From this perspective, the paper considers the status of social education. It examines the location of liberal education, the locations of history and philosophy as foundational knowledges, and the status of US adult educational research during the techno-scientific turn. It concludes with a postscript suggesting the cultural space and place of US academic adult education in 1970. © 1999, © 1999 Taylor and Francis Group, LLC.
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