Diana Coben is an adult education academic, and visiting professor of the

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. Between 2011 and 2018 she was Director of New Zealand's National Centre of Literacy and Numeracy for Adults and full professor at

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Academic career

Coben's PhD at the

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(now the

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) was '' 'Radical heroes: Gramsci, Freire and the Liberal tradition in adult education' '' studying the

critical pedagogy Critical pedagogy is a philosophy of education and social movement that developed and applied concepts from critical theory and related traditions to the field of education and the study of culture. It insists that issues of social justice and de ...

Paulo Freire Paulo Reglus Neves Freire (19 September 1921 – 2 May 1997) was a Brazilian educator and philosopher whose work revolutionized global thought on education. He is best known for ''Pedagogy of the Oppressed'', in which he reimagines teaching ...

and the

counterhegemony Counter-hegemony is an attempt to critique or dismantle hegemonic power. In other words, it is a confrontation or opposition to existing status quo and its legitimacy in politics, but can also be observed in various other spheres of life, such as ...

Antonio Gramsci Antonio Francesco Gramsci ( , ; ; 22 January 1891 – 27 April 1937) was an Italian Marxist philosophy, Marxist philosopher, Linguistics, linguist, journalist, writer, and politician. He wrote on philosophy, Political philosophy, political the ...

. Coben is being involved many groups and advisory boards related to

adult education Adult education, distinct from child education, is a practice in which adults engage in systematic and sustained educating activities in order to gain new knowledge, skills, attitudes, or values. Merriam, Sharan B. & Brockett, Ralph G. ''The Pr ...

, including the Irish National Centre for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching and Learning, UK National Research and Development Centre for Adult Literacy and Numeracy and Adults Learning Mathematics. She is a

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, a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce and an

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Selected works

* Coben, Diana. Radical Heroes: Gramsci, Freire and the Politics of Adult Education.

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, 2013. * Coben, Diana. "Adult numeracy: review of research and related literature: November 2003." (2003). * Coben, Diana. "Mathematics or common sense? Researching 'invisible' mathematics through adults' mathematics life histories." In Perspectives on adults learning mathematics, pp. 53–66.

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, 2000. * Coben, Diana. "Numeracy, mathematics and adult learning." Adult numeracy development: Theory, research, practice (2000): 33–50. * Coben, Diana. "Revisiting Gramsci." Studies in the Education of Adults 27, no. 1 (1995): 36–51. * Coben, Diana. "Metaphors for an educative politics: "common sense," "good sense," and educating adults". Gramsci and education (2002): 275–304.

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