Kategoria BISAC: Education >> Adult & Continuing Education

In recent years job training programs have suffered severe funding cuts, and the focus of training programs has shifted to meet the directives of funders rather than the needs of the community. How do these changes to job training affect disadvantaged workers and the unemployed? This insightful and comprehensive discussion of job education in Canada pools findings from a five-year collaborative study of training programs. Good training programs, argue Cohen and her contributors, are essential for providing chronically disadvantaged people with the tools needed to acquire more secure,...

You'll get numerous examples of adult education within and between religious institutions, along with helpful ideas to enhance practice as well as programs. Researchers will find it useful as a source on religious institutions, adult religious education, and adult learners in...

Lifelong Learning is essential to all individuals and in recent years has become a guiding principle for policy initiatives, ranging from national economic competition to issues of social cohesion and personal fulfilment. However, despite the importance of lifelong learning there is a critical absence of direct, international evidence on its extent, content and outcomes.

Lifelong Learning in Paid and Unpaid Work provides a new paradigm for understanding work and learning, documenting the active contribution of workers to their development and their adaptation to paid and...

Economic globalization, modern transportation, and advanced communication technologies have greatly enhanced the mobility of people across national boundaries. The resulting demographic, social, and cultural changes create new opportunities for development as well as new challenges for lifelong learning. Transnational Migration and Lifelong Learning examines the changing nature of lifelong learning in the age of transnational migration.

The book brings together international scholars from five different countries in a dialogue about the relationship between work, learning, mobility,...