Global perspectives on higher education and lifelong learners

ISBN-13: 9780415675079 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 312 str.

Hans Schuetze; Maria Slowey

Opis

The global expansion of participation rates in higher education continue more or less unabated. However, while the concept of lifelong learning has figured prominently in national and international educational policy discourse for more than three decades, its implications for the field of higher education has remained relatively underdeveloped. This book focuses on a particular dimension of the lifelong learning: higher education for those who have not progressed directly from school to higher education. Some will embark on undergraduate programmes as mature students, part-time and/or distance students; others wish to return to higher education after having completed (or not completed) a previous academic programme, while increasing numbers participate in postgraduate and continuing studies for a complex mix of professional and personal reasons.

Recenzje

"The book serves an important purpose in that it maps the territory for higher education responses to the lifelong learning discourse, showing both contextspecific differences as well as highlighting some similarities." ― Julia Preece, The International Review of Education – Journal of Lifelong Learning

Spis treści

1. Lifelong Learning and Higher Education in the New World Order  2. Canada  3. USA  4. Austria  5. Germany  6. Ireland  7. Sweden  8. United Kingdom  9. Australia  10. Japan  11. New Zealand  12: Perspectives on Lifelong Learning in Higher Education

O autorze

Maria Slowey is Director of Higher Education Research and Developmentat Dublin City University, Ireland. Hans G. Schuetze is a Professor Emeritus and former Director, Centre for Policy Studies in Higher Education and Training, University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada.