Learning Across the Lifespan: Theories, Research, Policies
ISBN: 9780080419268 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Hardbound. There is a widespread consensus that adult education and continuing vocational training are central elements in a strategy aimed at achieving economic growth. However, the stakes are not only economic. Adult education has also become a structural determinant of employment opportunities, earnings and quality of life. Adults who lack the motivation, opportunity or information needed to participate in a lifelong learning society will become increasingly disadvantaged. Educational systems must prepare people for a life of active learning. This volume argues that the principles of...
Hardbound. There is a widespread consensus that adult education and continuing vocational training are central elements in a strategy aimed at achievi...
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1042,01 zł |
Emergence of Learning Societies: Who Participates in Adult Learning?
ISBN: 9780080430683 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Hardbound. This volume provides the first international comparative study on the world of adult learning activities. It offers the first systematic attempt to provide reliable empirical information on some critical issues regarding the transformation of adult and continuing education in post-industrial societies such as: - What is the extent of the learning demand among the adult population in industrialized countries?- How many adults are involved every year in organized learning activities for vocational reasons, for reasons of academic or general education, and for socio-cultural aims?-...
Hardbound. This volume provides the first international comparative study on the world of adult learning activities. It offers the first systematic at...
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864,52 zł |
New Patterns of Adult Learning: A Six-Country Comparative Study
ISBN: 9780080430690 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In post-industrial societies some workers will have stable, good jobs in knowledge and learning-intensive workplaces, while many others will be underemployed or locked into a series of precarious, low-skill jobs in the periphery of the economy. In such a society, inclusions and exclusions in economics and social life are bound to correspond closely to inclusions and exclusions in adult education and training. With the transition toward the post-industrial society increasingly complete, the challenge to reduce the exclusive tendencies in adult education and training, and to make learning a...
In post-industrial societies some workers will have stable, good jobs in knowledge and learning-intensive workplaces, while many others will be undere...
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864,52 zł |
Dons and Workers: Oxford and Adult Education Since 1850
ISBN: 9780198205753 / Angielski / Twarda / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Dons and Workers is a history of university adult education in England. It focuses on the University of Oxford whose leading contribution to this movement presents an unfamiliar portrait of this "elitist" university and its influence on the nation. Lawrence Goldman considers the relationship between intellectuals and the working class over the past century and a half, examining the role of adult education in the evolution from late-Victorian liberalism to twentieth-century socialism.
Dons and Workers is a history of university adult education in England. It focuses on the University of Oxford whose leading contribution to this move...
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829,58 zł |
The Chautauqua Moment: Protestants, Progressives, and the Culture of Modern Liberalism
ISBN: 9780231126427 / Angielski / Twarda / 399 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book traces the rise and decline of what Theodore Roosevelt once called the "most American thing in America." The Chautauqua movement began in 1874 on the shores of Chautauqua Lake in western New York. More than a college or a summer resort or a religious assembly, it was a composite of all of these--completely derivative yet brilliantly innovative. For five decades, Chautauqua dominated adult education and reached millions with its summer assemblies, reading clubs, and traveling circuits. Scholars have long struggled to make sense of Chautauqua's pervasive yet disorganized presence...
This book traces the rise and decline of what Theodore Roosevelt once called the "most American thing in America." The Chautauqua movement began in 18...
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398,06 zł |
Enhancing Learning in Training and Adult Education
ISBN: 9780275959111 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book picks up where the well-received "Futurework" (1994) left off. It builds a strong case for workplace trainers treating their work as research. The nine chapters are designed to prepare readers to become workplace consultants. The authors present their workplace training program of research as well as a mastery learning model. By presenting ideas from instructional psychology, cognitive science, mastery learning, and performance based assessments, and then relating these findings to the workplace, the authors offer a new way to look at learning in the workplace. Considerable focus... This book picks up where the well-received "Futurework" (1994) left off. It builds a strong case for workplace trainers treating their work as rese... |
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182,90 zł |
Education of the African American Adult: An Historical Overview
ISBN: 9780313259722 / Angielski / Twarda / 285 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Education has been highly valued in the African American community. Despite the fact that adult education in particular looms large in the history of African American education, little mention is made of it in most standard histories of American or adult education. Part I highlights adult education efforts in antebellum society. L. H. Whiteaker focuses on the education of those slaves trained as skilled craftsmen and those who taught themselves to read and write. Elizabeth L. Ihle describes the efforts of nineteenth-century African Americans to improve their education. The Civil War and...
Education has been highly valued in the African American community. Despite the fact that adult education in particular looms large in the history of ...
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388,08 zł |
Interdisciplinary Handbook of Adult Lifespan Learning
ISBN: 9780313282058 / Angielski / Twarda / 506 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This interdisciplinary handbook is the first to provide an overview of research and theory about formal and informal adult learning. Jan Sinnott and a team of experts from different fields analyze and synthesize the state of the art today--how mature and aging adults learn and what their motivations are. This major reference examines important theories and models, learning in specific life contexts, the influence of aging on learning, and the future of adult lifespan learning. Extensive reference materials have been developed for students, teachers, policymakers, and practitioners to use... This interdisciplinary handbook is the first to provide an overview of research and theory about formal and informal adult learning. Jan Sinnott an... |
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332,64 zł |
Learning Opportunities for Adults
ISBN: 9780415005739 / Angielski / Twarda / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Argues for the financial backing from governments and industry for adult education and will help adult and community educators draw comparisons between their own work and that of their colleagues in other developed countries.
Argues for the financial backing from governments and industry for adult education and will help adult and community educators draw comparisons betwee...
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763,69 zł |
Culture and Processes of Adult Learning
ISBN: 9780415089814 / Angielski / Miękka / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The authors provide a variety of perspectives on the conceptualization of adult learning, drawing on sociology, psychology, adult education and applied research into how adults experience learning. Bringing together a number of major contributions to current debates about what learning during adulthood is for, what motivates learning, and how best it might be developed, the authors address a range of significant issues: what should be the context of learning programmed for adults, and who should decide?; what are the implications in general and for women in particular of the current emphasis...
The authors provide a variety of perspectives on the conceptualization of adult learning, drawing on sociology, psychology, adult education and applie...
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247,49 zł |
Adult Learners, Education and Training: A Reader
ISBN: 9780415089821 / Angielski / Miękka / 298 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In recent years, economic and demographic changes have brought into question the adequacy of initial education programmes for continuous employment. While the primary focus of debate has been on creating structures of continuous education and training linked to the economic needs of Britain, arguments and movements for wider access to all forms of learning have continued to be made. Drawing on the experience of other European countries as well as Britain, this book addresses the three major themes of the ongoing debates: who participates in what forms of education and training and how can...
In recent years, economic and demographic changes have brought into question the adequacy of initial education programmes for continuous employment. W...
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247,49 zł |
Apl: Equal Opportunities for All?
ISBN: 9780415090162 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Here, the authors explore practical ways of implementing APL for the benefit of individuals, employers and the community as a whole, showing how it can make a real contribution to equality of opportunity.
Chapters look at the particular needs of various sectors of the community, and how APL can be used to meet those needs. For ethnic communities, those whose first language is not English, and those who arrive in Britain with qualifications from overseas, the APL process can be a vital stage in the search for education, employment and equality of experience. People with disabilities find... Here, the authors explore practical ways of implementing APL for the benefit of individuals, employers and the community as a whole, showing how it ca...
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273,82 zł |
The Vocational Quest: New Directions in Education and Training
ISBN: 9780415109154 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Government attempts in recent years to create a national system of vocational education and training have marked a profound shift both in educational policy and in underlying concepts of what education is for. Relations between schools and the working world are changing all the time and the implementation of ideas of vocationalism has forced a blurring of the time-honoured boundaries between educations concerned with concepts and training, or with skills. The challenge now is to define how the schools can give young people the foundations for life in a working world in which they are likely...
Government attempts in recent years to create a national system of vocational education and training have marked a profound shift both in educational ...
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790,02 zł |
Adult Education and the Postmodern Challenge: Learning Beyond the Limits
ISBN: 9780415120203 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book offers some suggestions as to ways forward from this dilemma. Drawing on the new intellectual frameworks of critical pedagogy, feminism and postmodernism and their impact upon educational theory, practice and research, the book focuses on the changing contexts of adult education. By building on the notion of going beyond the limits of certain current adult education orthodoxies, the authors try to provide alternatives for practice. The final three chapters deal with research, focusing on a critical macro-analysis of mainstream paradigms, a review of alternative approaches, and a...
This book offers some suggestions as to ways forward from this dilemma. Drawing on the new intellectual frameworks of critical pedagogy, feminism and ...
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Adult Education and the Postmodern Challenge : Learning Beyond the Limits
ISBN: 9780415120210 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Drawing on the intellectual frameworks of critical pedagogy, feminism and postmodernism and their impact upon educational theory, practice and research, this study focuses on the changing contexts of adult education. By building on the notion of going beyond the limits of certain current adult education orthodoxies, the authors try to provide alternatives for practice. The final three chapters deal with research, focusing on a macro-analysis of mainstream paradigms, a review of alternative approaches, and a more micro-analysis centering on the role of the socially-located self in the research...
Drawing on the intellectual frameworks of critical pedagogy, feminism and postmodernism and their impact upon educational theory, practice and researc...
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Key Concepts in Adult Education and Training
ISBN: 9780415128339 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As adults, we are all continually involved in learning, with increasing numbers of us engaged in more formalized forms of learning - that is, in education or training. All those involved in the broad field of adult education and training will come into contact with many specialist ideas and concepts. It is often assumed of students that they already have a general understanding of these concepts, their meanings, applicability and inter-relationships. This is not always the case. This text examines in detail over 40 of these key concepts, ranging from community education and experiential...
As adults, we are all continually involved in learning, with increasing numbers of us engaged in more formalized forms of learning - that is, in educa...
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Boundaries of Adult Learning
ISBN: 9780415136143 / Angielski / Miękka / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Until relatively recently, adult learning in the UK was largely recognised as being situated mainly within the LEA adult education centre, university extra-mural departments and the WEA. However, this picture has changed. The major change has been a shift from 'education' to 'learning' as the key organising concept. A greater range of settings are now recognised as sites producing learning, and alongside this has grown a debate about the purpose and form of study within adult learning. This has led people to question both the concept of adult learning and the boundaries of its provision.
... Until relatively recently, adult learning in the UK was largely recognised as being situated mainly within the LEA adult education centre, university ...
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The Learning Society: Challenges and Trends
ISBN: 9780415136150 / Angielski / Miękka / 314 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The 'learning society' is not a new idea, although its popularity has grown in recent years with the suggestion that lifelong learning is a condition for economic competitiveness in a global economy, replacing the earlier conception of it as a condition for democratic citizenship.
This reader, designed to accompany Module E827 of the MA in Education, critically examines the demographic, technological, economic and cultural challenges which have led to interest in the idea of a learning society, and explores their policy and practical implications for lifelong learning. It also... The 'learning society' is not a new idea, although its popularity has grown in recent years with the suggestion that lifelong learning is a condition ...
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168,48 zł |
Prisoners' Work and Vocational Training
ISBN: 9780415146760 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Most prisoners in the UK are required to work. Yet prison work is a relatively neglected subject in the existing literature on imprisonment and few studies have focused on the nature of prison work, prisoners' experience of it, and the extent to which it meets the need of rehabilitating prisoners.
Prisoners' Work and Vocational Training sheds new light on this crucial area in the work of prisons and examines: *the nature of training received by prisoners *the actual work they undertake *how this relates to the world or work outside *the role it plays in helping... Most prisoners in the UK are required to work. Yet prison work is a relatively neglected subject in the existing literature on imprisonment and few st...
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200,09 zł |
Prisoners' Work and Vocational Training
ISBN: 9780415146777 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Most prisoners in the UK are required to work. Yet prison work is a relatively neglected subject in the existing literature on imprisonment and few studies have focused on the nature of prison work, prisoners' experience of it, and the extent to which it meets the need of rehabilitating prisoners.
Prisoners' Work and Vocational Training sheds new light on this crucial area in the work of prisons and examines: *the nature of training received by prisoners *the actual work they undertake *how this relates to the world or work outside *the role it plays in helping... Most prisoners in the UK are required to work. Yet prison work is a relatively neglected subject in the existing literature on imprisonment and few st...
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115,82 zł |