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Presenting a snapshot of contemporary international research into the pedagogy of lifelong learning and teaching, this book focuses on a range of issues related to lifelong learning, including higher education, community-based learning and literacy practic

Demonstrating what it is like to be an adult learner in today's world, this book focuses on language, literacy and numeracy learning. The authors explore the complex relationship between learning and adults' lives, following a wide range of individual students in various formal learning situations, from college environments to a young homeless project, and a drug support and aftercare centre.

The study is rooted in a social practices approach and examines how people's lives shape their learning. Themes addressed range from: how literacy is learned through participation and how...

Presenting a snapshot of contemporary international research into the pedagogy of lifelong learning and teaching, this book focuses on a wide range of issues related to lifelong learning, including higher education, community-based learning and literacy practices in continuing education. It highlights the fact that the wide-ranging conclusions they draw have vital implications for this rapidly changing field.

The book reviews the emerging issues from researching teaching and learning in different post-school contexts - an issue which has grown in research importance around the...

Lifelong learning has developed enormously as a distinct area of study within education in recent years, not least because many governments and educational strategists have become very vocal supporters of new ways of learning throughout all stages of life. This text offers a detailed snapshot of the field.

This textbook gives a wide-ranging, research-informed introduction to issues in lifelong learning across a variety of educational settings and practices. Its very accessible approach is multi-disciplinary drawing on sociology and psychology in particular. In addition, issues are discussed within an international context. While there has been a proliferation of texts focussing on particular areas of practice such as higher education, there is little in the way of a broad overview.

Chapters one to four introduce various conceptions of lifelong learning, the factors that impinge on...

Explores the significance of policies and practices of lifelong learning to the wider societies of which they are a part. This book offers insights into such questions as: What are the effects of lifelong learning policies within socio-political systems of

Offers a different perspective on lifelong learning and the learning society and locates them within humanity itself. Addressing the issues that arise from the vision of the learning society, this book concludes that since human beings continue to learn, s

"Her Rite of Passage" presents a complete curriculum that shows you what to do to design and carry out a successful African-centered rites program from start to finish. This guidebook will help you: understand the rites of passage process, incorporate African-centered rituals and interactive activities into your program, develop a better understanding of the social and cultural orientation of African-American girls, facilitate weekly rap sessions and plan and organize the initiation retreat and crossover ceremony.

What effect has globalization had on our understanding of literacy? Grassroots Literacy seeks to address the relationship between globalization and the widening gap between 'grassroots' literacies, or writings from ordinary people and local communities, and 'elite' literacies.

Displaced from their original context to elite literacy environments in the form of letters, police declarations and pieces of creative writing, 'grassroots' literacies are unsurprisingly easily disqualified, either as 'bad' forms of literacy, or as messages that fail to be understood. Through close...

From College to Career examines the lives of poor mothers who completed community college degrees and entered the workforce during a major shift in American social welfare policy. With the passage of federal welfare reform a lot more attention was focused on helping low-income mothers enter and make progress in the labor market. Policies that encouraged education and training as a means to securing stable employment received less emphasis in this new policy environment. Using a combination of data from a survey of a community college cohort and interviews with low-income mothers who received...

Uniquely presented, this research follows the experience of ten participants in a six week, work/study program, Yoga and the Expressive Arts which was held at Hollyhock Education and Retreat Centre in B.C. Canada. Two program years are compared to explore the question: How can expressive arts-based learning build capacities to meet the demands of leading and working in complex, emergent work environments? Theories of learning, integral models (Wilber, 2000), leadership theory, complexity theory, mind-body research, and music/expressive arts research are referenced. Quantitative and...

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 reader examines various approaches to learning and learning strategies including psychological, sociological and cross-cultural. The international team of contributors cover topics including formal learning, age differences in adult learning, Piagets' stage theory and experiential learning.

Research has indicated that assessment is a key factor in student learning. This book details the issues of assessment in the open and distance learning field, where changes in budgets, the location and environment of the students and other factors have prompted innovations in assessment.

A guide for educators wanting to come to terms with their support role in open and distance learning. Covering all aspects of student support from tuition and counselling through to the broad range of delivery methods available, the book offers

An analysis of learning throughout the whole of life. Written as a text for both educators and carers, it demonstrates how the learning process works through life and how learning at all stages of life is best achieved.

Arising from work by the Gender and Lifelong Learning Group of the Gender and Education Association, this book presents reconceptualisations of lifelong learning. It argues that the current field of lifelong learning is based on certain hidden values and assumptions and examines the mechanisms by which exclusionary discourses and practices are reproduced and maintained.

The book opens up ways of conceptualising learning that takes into account multiple and shifting formations of learners from different social contexts. The authors broaden what counts as learning and who counts as a...

This textbook gives a wide-ranging, research-informed introduction to issues in lifelong learning across a variety of educational settings and practices. Its very accessible approach is multi-disciplinary drawing on sociology and psychology in particular. In addition, issues are discussed within an international context. While there has been a proliferation of texts focussing on particular areas of practice such as higher education, there is little in the way of a broad overview.

Chapters one to four introduce various conceptions of lifelong learning, the factors that impinge on...

Over the last twenty years there has been increasing interest in the work of Michel Foucault in the social sciences and in relation to education in particular. This, the first book to draw on his work to consider lifelong learning, explores the significance of policies and practices of lifelong learning to the wider societies of which they are a part.