Research

Educational gerontology (learning in later life)
e.g. conceptualising the field of older adults and learning critique of mainstream educational programming cross-national comparisons in a global context analysis of non-formal and informal learning in the third age

The sociology of [adult] education
e.g. social equity in adult/continuing education policy and practice in adult/continuing education the political economy of adult education (issues of gender, social class, ageism and ethnicity in adult education) application of Freirean philosophy and pedagogy to practice

Comparative [international] education – with special reference to adult/continuing education
e.g. cross-cultural studies of practice in adult education ideologies of radical adult education and their implications for the New Zealand context. social issues in [adult] education [e.g. biculturalism/multiculturalism]