The recognition of prior learning power, pedagogy and possibility: conceptual and implementation guides

Globally, the meaning and nature of education is reconstructed by changing social conditions. Globalisation and marketisation are the motifs. The 'knowledge society' and lifelong learning have become central concepts. From a socio-cultural perspective, postmodernist writers have questioned Enlightenment thinking - the grand and universal narratives that traditionally shaped education (liberalism, humanism, radicalism and human capitalism) and the modernist view of education as an unproblematic, value-free key to personal and social progress