Lifelong Learning: Concepts and Contexts

by Crowther; Jim

• ISBN13: 9780415443050
• ISBN10: 0415443059
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2007-08-20
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Lifelong learning has developed enormously as a distinct area of study within education in recent years not least because numerous governments and educational strategists have become very vocal supporters of new ways of learning throughout all stages of life. This guide to the topic brings together new writing from some of the leading thinkers in the field to offer a broad ranging and detailed snapshot of the position to date. The book provides a critical summary of current developments in understanding adult learning and the social context in which they are located. This provides a background for the framing of issues and the problems that emerge in institutional and non-formal contexts of lifelong learning. Students undertaking courses of study in this area as well as a wide range of undergraduate and postgraduate students in a variety of professional areas will find the material essential reading.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

List of Figures

Foreword

Introduction

Introduction: 'The lifelong learning imagination'

Perspectives on Adult and Lifelong Learning

What is Special about Adult Learning?

An Overview on Transformative Learning

Managing Change and Transition: A psychosocial perspective on lifelong learning

The Application of the Ideas of Habermas to Adult Learning

A Troubled Space of Possibilities: Lifelong learning and the postmodern

Institutions and Issues for Lifelong Learning

Realizing a Lifelong Learning Higher Education Institution

Towards a Responsive Work-based Curriculum for Non-traditional Students in Higher Education

Changing to Learning Cultures that Foster Lifelong Learners

An Analysis of the Relations between Learning and Teaching Approaches

Lifelong Learning: The role of emotional intelligence

A Comparison of Piaget's and Biggs's Conceptions of Cognitive Development in Adults and their Implications for the Teaching of Adults

Academic Study as a Social Practice

Self-regulation: A multi-dimensional learning strategy

Informal and Community Contexts for Learning

(Mis) Recognising Lifelong Learning in Non-formal Settings

Social Movements, Praxis and the Profane Side of Lifelong Learning

Learning Cities, Learning Regions, Lifelong Learning Implementers

Literacy as Social Practice: Travelling between the everyday and other forms of learning

Lifelong Learning in the Community: Social action

Work and Learning: Implications for lifelong learning in the workplace

Making a Space for Adult Education in Mental Health: The Outlook Project experience

List of contributors

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