The Convergence of Distance and Conventional Education: Patterns of Flexibility for the Individual Learner
ISBN: 9780415194280 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume of essays from leading British, North American and Australasian contributors looks at the issues of the convergence of distance and conventional education. The term 'convergence' refers to the breaking down of barriers between open and distance learning and conventional institutions, and the creation of more and more institutions working across a range of modes. Such convergence has been driven by a number of factors, including the new technologies for teaching and learning, the impact of lifelong learning policies, the entry of larger than ever numbers of adult part-time students...
This volume of essays from leading British, North American and Australasian contributors looks at the issues of the convergence of distance and conven...
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Education, Training and the Future of Work II: Developments in Vocational Education and Training
ISBN: 9780415202114 / Angielski / Miękka / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume focuses on the recent changes in education and training policy, mainly in the UK. The considerable developments of past years and the ways in which they have affected both education and training are examined. The contributors analyse the methods by which we educate our workforce, and look closely at the kind of training now offered to those in work.
The chapters in this reader cover: * the role of the state * how economic factors influence education * national education and training policy * the political factor. Other countries including Germany are looked at,... This volume focuses on the recent changes in education and training policy, mainly in the UK. The considerable developments of past years and the ways...
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217,80 zł |
Learning Autonomy in Post-16 Education: The Policy and Practice of Formative Assessment
ISBN: 9780415247405 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book makes an important contribution to understanding the political, social and educational impact of assessment. Using a multi-layered approach, it offers a fascinating case study of how post-16 assessment systems are designed and debated inside policy making processes. This case study highlights the broader tensions at the heart of assessment policy.
The book also explores the complex factors that affect how teachers and students use formative assessment to achieve higher standards of educational attainment and more autonomous learning. Learning Autonomy in Post-16... This book makes an important contribution to understanding the political, social and educational impact of assessment. Using a multi-layered approach,...
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778,05 zł |
Higher Education and Lifelong Learning : International Perspectives on Change
ISBN: 9780415247931 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. There has been a fundamental shift in participation levels in higher education across countries over the last 15 years of the 20th century. Typically characterized as a shift from elite to a mass system, there have been many fundamental changes - not least in the participation levels in many countries reaching some 50 per cent. In an attempt to reconcile demand for higher education, many countries focused on reforming the education system into a system of lifelong learning. This was seen as a system for updating and retraining those who had attended higher education and offering alternative...
There has been a fundamental shift in participation levels in higher education across countries over the last 15 years of the 20th century. Typically ...
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700,25 zł |
Higher Education and Lifelong Learning: International Perspectives on Change
ISBN: 9780415247948 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Responding to the emerging needs of lifelong learners arguably represents one of the most fundamental challenges facing higher education systems of the countries of the developing world. At the start of the new century the concept of Lifelong Learning may indeed be counted as one of the the key organising concepts underlying public policy in many countries. The interpretation of the concept, however, remains highly contested.
This timely book throws new light on the dramatic changes taking place in higher education through an exploration of the participation of "non-traditional"... Responding to the emerging needs of lifelong learners arguably represents one of the most fundamental challenges facing higher education systems of th...
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233,36 zł |
Supporting Lifelong Learning: Volume II: Organising Learning
ISBN: 9780415259286 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This Reader examines the ways in which learning is organized in a diverse range of lifelong learning environments. If we are to harness the full potential of this learning, the structures of organizations and providers will have to change.
The book also examines the shift away from the perception of formal institutions as the sole providers of education and the increasing recognition of the learning opportunities which exist outside the walls of institutions. The book looks at what types of environment promote lifelong learning, how they can be organised to support meaningful learning and... This Reader examines the ways in which learning is organized in a diverse range of lifelong learning environments. If we are to harness the full poten...
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440,84 zł |
Supporting Lifelong Learning: Volume II: Organising Learning
ISBN: 9780415259293 / Angielski / Miękka / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This Reader examines the ways in which learning is organized in a diverse range of lifelong learning environments. If we are to harness the full potential of this learning, the structures of organizations and providers will have to change.
The book also examines the shift away from the perception of formal institutions as the sole providers of education and the increasing recognition of the learning opportunities which exist outside the walls of institutions. The book looks at what types of environment promote lifelong learning, how they can be organised to support meaningful learning and... This Reader examines the ways in which learning is organized in a diverse range of lifelong learning environments. If we are to harness the full poten...
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165,93 zł |
Supporting Lifelong Learning: Volume III: Making Policy Work
ISBN: 9780415259309 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume of the Open University Reader for Supporting Lifelong Learning looks at policy development in lifelong learning at local, regional, national and supra-national levels. Using an international team of contributors, it explores and examines the policy context for lifelong learning, the policies themselves, and their effects when implemented.
The book focuses on the role of lifelong learning policy in relation to issues of competitiveness, technological change and social inclusion. The provision of a range of chapters from around the globe uniquely establishes a comparative basis... This volume of the Open University Reader for Supporting Lifelong Learning looks at policy development in lifelong learning at local, regional, nation...
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451,22 zł |
Supporting Lifelong Learning: Volume III: Making Policy Work
ISBN: 9780415259316 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume of the Open University Reader for Supporting Lifelong Learning looks at policy development in lifelong learning at local, regional, national and supra-national levels. Using an international team of contributors, it explores and examines the policy context for lifelong learning, the policies themselves, and their effects when implemented.
The book focuses on the role of lifelong learning policy in relation to issues of competitiveness, technological change and social inclusion. The provision of a range of chapters from around the globe uniquely establishes a comparative basis... This volume of the Open University Reader for Supporting Lifelong Learning looks at policy development in lifelong learning at local, regional, nation...
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212,61 zł |
Reconstructing the Lifelong Learner: Pedagogy and Identity in Individual, Organisational and Social Change
ISBN: 9780415263474 / Angielski / Twarda / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How is adult learning used to produce personal, organisational and social change?
This interesting examination of adult learning for change illustrates through diverse case studies and theoretical perspectives that personal change is inextricably linked to broader organisational and social change. The authors explore how theorising education as a vehicle for self-change is relevant to the practices of educators, learning specialists and others concerned with promoting learning for change. The book examines the relationship between pedagogy, identity and change, and illustrates this... How is adult learning used to produce personal, organisational and social change?
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Reconstructing the Lifelong Learner: Pedagogy and Identity in Individual, Organisational and Social Change
ISBN: 9780415263481 / Angielski / Miękka / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How is adult learning used to produce personal, organisational and social change?
This interesting examination of adult learning for change illustrates through diverse case studies and theoretical perspectives that personal change is inextricably linked to broader organisational and social change. The authors explore how theorising education as a vehicle for self-change is relevant to the practices of educators, learning specialists and others concerned with promoting learning for change. The book examines the relationship between pedagogy, identity and change, and illustrates this... How is adult learning used to produce personal, organisational and social change?
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From Teaching to Mentoring: Principles and Practice, Dialogue and Life in Adult Education
ISBN: 9780415266178 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What is mentoring? What makes a teacher a mentor?
From Teaching to Mentoring is an argument for the power, practicality and the basic good of a simple educational idea. The authors advocate a sound, comprehensive and lifelong education, shifting the emphasis of the learning process to the needs of the student. Whilst heeding traditional criteria of educational excellence, they ask for profound educational and political transformations: * Teachers become collaborative inquirers with their students * Students become skilled and lifelong independent learners * Academic... What is mentoring? What makes a teacher a mentor?
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700,25 zł |
From Teaching to Mentoring: Principles and Practice, Dialogue and Life in Adult Education
ISBN: 9780415266185 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What is mentoring? What makes a teacher a mentor?
From Teaching to Mentoring is an argument for the power, practicality and the basic good of a simple educational idea. The authors advocate a sound, comprehensive and lifelong education, shifting the emphasis of the learning process to the needs of the student. Whilst heeding traditional criteria of educational excellence, they ask for profound educational and political transformations: * Teachers become collaborative inquirers with their students * Students become skilled and lifelong independent learners * Academic... What is mentoring? What makes a teacher a mentor?
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Key Concepts in Adult Education and Training
ISBN: 9780415275798 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 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 or 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 book examines in detail over forty 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 educat...
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254,11 zł |
Key Issues in Sustainable Development and Learning: a critical review
ISBN: 9780415276498 / Angielski / Twarda / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This title presents seminal readings from existing literature alongside specially commissioned, critical vignettes from leading thinkers with interests in sustainable development and learning. The book sets out to inform readers about the many perspectives that exist, and to challenge assumptions they may have about both sustainable development and learning.
This title presents seminal readings from existing literature alongside specially commissioned, critical vignettes from leading thinkers with interest...
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907,73 zł |
Making Sense of Lifelong Learning: Respecting the Needs of All
ISBN: 9780415280433 / Angielski / Twarda / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Making Sense of Lifelong Learning looks beyond the rhetoric about lifelong learning (LLL), and asks long overdue questions such as, Who is actually in need of LLL? What are the motives of institutions, employers and the Government in promoting LLL? And, who says what is and what is not LLL?
In the context of the previous government attempts to enhance the economic strength of the country, the author also makes suggestions as to what might be done to encourage wider participation in LLL, particularly with regard to the increasing economic and social gaps in today's society. The... Making Sense of Lifelong Learning looks beyond the rhetoric about lifelong learning (LLL), and asks long overdue questions such as, Who is ac...
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700,25 zł |
Making Sense of Lifelong Learning
ISBN: 9780415280440 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Lifelong learning is a phrase often used and discussed by those working in colleges, higher education institutions and local authorities yet it seems few people really agree on what it means and the scope it covers. This comprehensive book looks into the broad issue of lifelong learning.
Lifelong learning is a phrase often used and discussed by those working in colleges, higher education institutions and local authorities yet it seems ...
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274,86 zł |
Citizenship and Higher Education: The Role of Universities in Communities and Society
ISBN: 9780415334877 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What are the obligations of the university to society and its communities? What are the virtues of university education? What are the university's ethical responsibilities to its students? The role of citizenship and civic responsibility in higher education is a highly contested yet crucial element of any consideration of the role of university in society. What are the obligations of the university to society and its communities? What are the virtues of university education? What are the university's ... |
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Lifelong Learning: Concepts and Contexts
ISBN: 9780415353724 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 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 guide to lifelong learning brings together new writing from leading thinkers in the field to provide a critical summary of current developments i...
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700,25 zł |
Adult Learning in the Digital Age : Information Technology and the Learning Society
ISBN: 9780415356985 / Angielski / Twarda / 229 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Learning with technology is viewed globally as crucial to establishing a skilled workforce and empowering citizens by offering opportunities to those who would be otherwise excluded. Governments around the world have therefore set targets and developed policies to help all adults learn, work and live with the support of information and communications technologies (ICTs).
This illuminating and engaging book sheds light on the ways in which adults in the 21st century interact with ICTs for learning at home, work and within the wider community. Based on one of the first large-scale academic... Learning with technology is viewed globally as crucial to establishing a skilled workforce and empowering citizens by offering opportunities to those ...
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700,25 zł |