This guide to lifelong learning brings together new writing from leading thinkers in the field to provide a critical summary of current developments in understanding adult learning and the societal context in which they are located. Lifelong learning has developed enormously as a distinct area of study within education in recent years. This up-to-the-minute guide brings together new writing from some of the leading thinkers in the field to offer a broad rangingnbsp;yet detailed snapshot of current developments in understanding adult learning andnbsp;its social and personal context.

This is a book for activists, students, scholars of social movements and adult education and for the public interested in the contemporary movements of our times. From the streets of Barcelona and Athens, the public squares in Cairo, Tunis and Tripoli, the flash mobs and virtual learning of the #Occupy movement, and the shack dwellers of South Africa people around the world are organising themselves to take action against the ravages of a capitalism that serves the greedy while impoverishing the rest. Social movements have arisen or re-arisen in virtually every sector of human activity from...

This is a book for activists, students, scholars of social movements and adult education and for the public interested in the contemporary movements of our times. From the streets of Barcelona and Athens, the public squares in Cairo, Tunis and Tripoli, the flash mobs and virtual learning of the #Occupy movement, and the shack dwellers of South Africa people around the world are organising themselves to take action against the ravages of a capitalism that serves the greedy while impoverishing the rest. Social movements have arisen or re-arisen in virtually every sector of human activity from...