Intimacy and Ethical Action in Adult Education

dc.contributor.author	Plumb, Donovan
dc.date.accessioned	2015-09-15T16:36:58Z
dc.date.available	2015-09-15T16:36:58Z
dc.date.issued	2009
dc.description.abstract	This article suggests that thinking about the nature of intimacy, especially sexual intimacy, is a good way of deepening our understanding of how deep-seated psychic vulnerabilities play an important role in adult education contexts. Drawing on psychoanalytic accounts of human development, the paper outlines how the capacity for ethical action in adult education rests on the ability of adult educators to develop identities that can recognize and accept their own imperfections. Rigid, narcissistic, and omnipotent identities are incapable of understanding and nurturing the pro-social identity development of other people. Viewing human development issues through the lens of intimacy helps clarify not only what is at stake in contexts like adult education but also helps illuminate the qualities of generativity most conducive to the development of other people	en_US
dc.format.availability	Citation only	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Plumb, D. (2009). Intimacy and Ethical Action in Adult Education. New Horizons in Adult Education and Human Resource Development, 23(2), 6-21.	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/nha3.10335/abstract
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10587/1633
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.title	Intimacy and Ethical Action in Adult Education	en_US

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