Description:
Gender, Experience, and Knowledge in Adult Learning traces the emergence of the "experiential learner" as a particular kind of modernist entity, using feminist epistemology specifically, and the enlightenment critique more broadly to argue that, however inadvertently, much experiential learning theory ends up replicating the detached, disembodied knower of enlightenment. Utilizing sources from America, the UK, South Africa and Australia, using as an allegory Chaucer's Wife of Bath, the book has wide appeal and will be valuable for academics interested in adult learning, or on courses about the politics of knowledge or feminist epistemology.