Overview
- Uses a posthuman framework to explore lifelong learning in dementia in a clear, accessible way
- Highlights the ways in which music and arts stimulate learning in people with dementia
- Provides a breakthrough in ways to understand lifelong learning
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Adult Education and Lifelong Learning (PSAELL)
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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.
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“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)
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
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.
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Lifelong Learning and Dementia
Book Subtitle: A Posthumanist Perspective
Authors: Jocey Quinn, Claudia Blandon
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Adult Education and Lifelong Learning
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-42231-8
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-42230-1Published: 23 March 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-42231-8Published: 22 March 2020
Series ISSN: 2524-6313
Series E-ISSN: 2524-6321
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 98
Topics: Lifelong Learning/Adult Education, Philosophy of Education, Music, Pedagogic Psychology, Self and Identity, Geriatric Care