Political Sociology of Adult Education -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- THE BRAZILIAN 'EFFECT' -- THIS BOOK -- NOTES -- CHAPTER I: RECONCEPTUALIZING LIFELONG LEARNING -- NOTES -- CHAPTER II: A POLITICAL SOCIOLOGY OF ADULT LEARNING EDUCATION IN THE TWENTY FIRST CENTURY -- MAPPING KEY CONCEPTS: GLOBALIZATION, THE LEARNING SOCIETY, THE KNOWLEDGE-BASED SOCIETY AND THE NETWORK SOCIETY -- Adult Learning Education Paradigms -- The Transformative Power of Adult Learning Education -- NEOLIBERALISM, THE NATION-STATE, AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS: LESSONS FROM LATIN AMERICA6 -- ADULT LEARNING EDUCATION: MODELS AND RATIONALITIES AS THEORETICAL CONSTRUCTS -- Models and Rationalities of Adult Learning Education -- NOTES -- CHAPTER III: RATIONALITIES IN ADULT LEARNING EDUCATION -- Constitutional Mandates -- Human Capital Investment -- Political Socialization -- Compensatory Legitimation -- International Pressures -- Social Movements -- Instrumental Rationality and Policymaking -- NEOLIBERAL GLOBALIZATION AND COLLECTIVE OPPOSITION: POTENTIAL IMPACTS ON ADULT LEARNING EDUCATION -- ADULT LEARNING EDUCATION: WHAT IS TO BE DONE? -- NOTES -- CHAPTER IV: ADULT LEARNING EDUCATION AND CIVILIZATION CRISES -- A Scenario of Crises: Crisis is Opportunity -- NOTES -- CHAPTER V: REINVENTING ADULT LEARNING EDUCATION: UNLEASHING THE POWER, RECLAIMING THE DREAM -- Unleashing the Power of Adult Learning Education -- RETHINKING, UN-THINKING, AND REINVENTING ADULT LEARNING EDUCATION FOR EMANCIPATION AND EMPOWERMENT -- 1. For a New Epistemology: Adult Learning Education as a Critique of Obscurantism -- 2. Adult Learning Education in Support of an Alternative Globalization: Planetarization -- 3. Adult Learning Education in Support of Eco-pedagogy5 -- 4. Adult Learning Education in Support of an Education for Social Justice Challenging the Principles of Neoliberalism.

5. Adult Learning Education in Support of a Multicultural and Cosmopolitan Citizenship -- 6. Adult Learning Education in Support of Radical Education and Democracy -- 7. Adult Learning Education in Support of Transecting, Transdisciplinary, and Connective Models of Knowledge -- 8. Adult Learning Education in Support of a Perspective Transformation -- NOTES -- CHAPTER VI: ADULT LEARNING EDUCATION AND LITERACY AS INTERNATIONAL COMPARATIVE EDUCATION -- The Special Case of Adult Literacy -- NOTES -- CHAPTER VII: TRANSFORMATIVE SOCIAL JUSTICE LEARNING AS A NEW LIFELONG LEARNING PARADIGM: THE ROLE OF CRITICAL THEORY AND PUBLIC INTELLECTUALS -- The Role of Public Intellectuals and Adult Learning Education -- NOTE -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- AFTERWORD -- Education vs. Learning: Redefining the Object of Policy, Scholarship,and Practice -- THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL TOOLS TO RESEARCH 'GLOBAL' ADULT EDUCATION POLICY -- Public Policy and Values Permeability -- A Strategic-Relational Approach to the State and Agents' Positionalities -- Policy Sociology, the Anthropology of Policy and the Re-Bordering of the Research Field -- To Conclude -- REFERENCES -- PRAISE FOR THE BOOK-BACK JACKET -- INDEX.