The CUV Partnership Annual Lecture 2000

Reclaiming Common Purpose : education for regeneration
Jane Thompson - National Association of Adult Continuing Education

Before joining NIACE in May 2000 as Research and Development Officer, Jane Thompson worked in the Department of Adult Continuing Education at the University of Southampton and Ruskin College, Oxford where she was Director of Studies. Her specialist teaching interests include Working Class and Community Education.

She has taught courses in women's education, community education and the sociology of education at post graduate level and has supervised students writing M.A. dissertations and PhD theses. She is currently an external examiner in community education at the University of Edinburgh, the University of Glasgow and the National University of Ireland as well as Research Associate at the University of Warwick. At NIACE she is working on educational responses to the social inclusion, community regeneration and empowerment agendas.

She has written widely about the theory and practice of adult continuing education. Her most recent publications include Adult Learning, Critical Intelligence and Social Change (NIACE 1995); Words in Edgeways: Radical Learning for Social Change (NIACE 1997); Ruskin College: Contesting Knowledge, Dissenting Politics (Lawrence and Wishart 1999); Reclaiming Common Purpose (NIACE 2000), Women, Class and Education (Routledge 2000), and Stretching the Academy: The Politics and Practice of Widening Participation in Higher Education (NIACE 2000).