Responding to the mental health and well-being agenda in adult community learning

Autor:	Lydia Lewis
Rok vydání:	2014
Předmět:	Community education business.industry Project commissioning Learning community media_common.quotation_subject Public relations musculoskeletal system Focus group Mental health Education Adult education Well-being business Psychology Empowerment media_common
Zdroj:	Research in Post-Compulsory Education. 19:357-377
ISSN:	1747-5112 1359-6748
DOI:	10.1080/13596748.2014.955364
Popis:	In the United Kingdom, changes in the policy, funding and commissioning landscape for mental health and well-being are posing opportunities and challenges for adult community learning (ACL). Opportunities include increased recognition of, and funding for, the ‘wider benefits’ of learning, whereas challenges include the risks of ACL provision becoming hijacked by a health and well-being agenda that compromises its primary educational purpose and values. This paper engages with these policy debates through reporting on a study of mental health ACL that employed the capabilities approach along with two other complementary areas of social theory – recognition theories and theories of capitals. Its aim was to explore the means through which ACL impacts mental health and to draw out implications for policy and practice. Findings from focus groups with adult learners and tele-discussions with ACL practitioners revealed three main means through which the provision helped generate interlinked mental health and edu...
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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