Education "for" Health

Autor/in	Parrott, Allen
Titel	Education "for" Health
Quelle	In: Adults Learning, 16 (2005) 5, S.14-15 (2 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0955-2308
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Adult Education; Adult Learning; Adult Students; Adult Educators; Lifelong Learning; Role of Education; Self Esteem; Mental Health; Therapy + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Adult; Adults; Education; Adult basic education; Adult training; Erwachsenenbildung; Adulte education; Student; Students; Erwachsenenalter; Studentin; Schüler; Schülerin; Adult education teacher; Adult education; Teacher; Teachers; Adult educator; Erwachsenenbildner; Lehrer; Lehrerin; Lehrende; Life-long learning; Lebenslanges Lernen; Bildungsauftrag; Self-esteem; Selbstaufmerksamkeit; Psychohygiene; Therapie
Abstract	In her recent article ("Adults Learning," Vol. 16, No. 3), Kathryn Ecclestone makes clear her distaste for links between education and therapy. She is opposed to education being seen as a route to "emotional wellbeing" or to "raised self-esteem", which are modish, under-researched concepts at best. If adult educators are unwise enough to be enthusiastic about this recent trend in education, they will unwittingly be contributing to "low educational horizons and negative views of people". Whatever benign influence they may think they are having, they are in fact being patronising and helping to sustain a cultural "demoralisation" in which people's "potential for autonomy and ... capacity for resilience and stoicism" has been reduced. In a longer, more academic article in "The British Journal of Education" (Vol. 54, No. 3) she took the attack further. To be concerned with the psychological health or well-being of adult learners is to betray the radical tradition of adult education. Adult educators who make such concerns central to their work have entered a professional comfort zone, where today's soft and woolly psychology has replaced yesterday's hard-edged and jagged politics. These are serious charges and the author takes such criticism personally, because for over 20 years the author has been engaged in encouraging exactly the type of health-related adult education Ecclestone dislikes. It has never felt like a comfort zone. On the contrary, the author's long-held view that the boundaries between educational and therapeutic interventions are amorphous and permeable rather than fixed and rigid has never gone down well, except with a few like-minded colleagues. In this response, the author contends that Ecclestone's case is not just mistaken, but that it needs to be completely turned on its head to get nearer to the truth. Education "for" health, of the kind Ecclestone deplores, is actually the most hopeful development in recent adult education history precisely because it does not diminish and reduce learners. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10