International Handbook on Lifelong Learning

by Aspin, David N.; Chapman, Judith D.; Hatton, Michael; Sawano, Yukiko

• ISBN13: 9780792368151
• ISBN10: 0792368150
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-05-01
• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Pub

Summary

Recent changes in the world effected by the transformations of information technology, globalisation, and the move towards a knowledge economy over the last thirty years have been as radical and fundamental as the changes resulting from the invention of the wheel and the printing press. We are now living in a new age in which the demands are so complex, so multifarious and so rapidly changing that the only way in which we shall be able to survive them is by committing to a process of individual, communal, and global learning throughout the lifespan of all of us. A number of international bodies and agencies have taken cognisance of these transformations and the demands they impose upon societies and communities of the twenty-first century and have developed and articulated policies intended to enable all citizens of the world in the twenty-first century to face these challenges. It is now a declared policy of many governments and international agencies that the only vehicle for such preparation is 'education, education, education', and that preparing for the knowledge economy and the learning society of the future has to be a lifelong undertaking, an investment in the future that is not restricted merely to the domain of economic advancement but also to those of social inclusion and personal growth. Realising this, policy-makers across the international arena are grappling with the need to move from systems that emphasise education and training to the radically more unworked construct of lifelong learning. In this volume the editors and authors analyse, criticise, and rework the ideas, principles, and theories underpinning policies and programs of lifelong learning, re-interpreting them in the light of examples of 'best practice' found in a range of educating institutions around the world. We believe that students of educational change and community development will find it useful and helpful to have available in this volume some of the most up-to-date thinking on the chief concepts, theories, and values of increasing policy interest in lifelong learning, together with a review of some significant examples of the different forms, focuses, and nexuses of thought and practice on this topic. All this enables us to offer some policy recommendations and practical suggestions as to ways forward in the endeavour to make lifelong learning a reality for all.

Table of Contents

PART ONE
Foreword	xi
Peter W. Sheehan
Acknowledgements	xiii
Introduction and Overview	xvii
David Aspin
Judith Chapman
Michael Hatton
Yukiko Sawano
Contributors	xlvi
Lifelong Learning: Conceptual, Philosophical And Values Issues
David Aspin
Towards a Philosophy of Lifelong Learning	3	(32)
David Aspin
Judith Chapman
Locating Lifelong Learning and Education in Contemporary Currents of Thought and Culture	35	(18)
Richard Bagnall
Lifelong Learning and Personal Fulfillment	53	(8)
Robin Barrow
Patrick Keeney
Political Inclusion, Democratic Empowerment and Lifelong Learning	61	(18)
Penny Enslin
Shirley Pendlebury
Mary Tjattas
Lifelong Learning and the Contribution of Informal Learning	79	(14)
Paul Hager
Lifelong Learning, Changing Economies and the World of Work	93	(16)
John Halliday
From Adult Education to Lifelong Learning	109	(10)
Mal Leicester
Stella Parker
Caring for the Adult Self	119	(16)
James Marshall
Lifelong Learning for a Learning Democracy	135	(20)
Stewart Ranson
Glenn Rikowski
Michael Strain
Lifelong Education: Some Deweyan Themes	155	(10)
Ivan Snook
Lifelong Learning In the Postmodern	165	(18)
Robin Usher
Lifelong Learning: Small Adjustment or Paradigm Shift?	183	(18)
Kenneth Wain
The Policy Challenge
Yukiko Sawano
Lifelong Learning Policies in Low Development Contexts: An African Perspective	201	(28)
David Atchoarena
Steven Hite
Lifelong Learning and Developing Society	229	(30)
Ramon Flecha
Lidia Puigvert
Lifelong Learning Policies in Transition Countries	259	(26)
Zoran Jelenc
Trends in and Objectives of Adult Higher Education in China	285	(32)
Atsushi Makino
Lifelong Learning and the Leisure-Oriented Society: The Development and Challenges in the Far East	317	(12)
Kaoru Okamoto
The Swedish Adult Education Initiative: From Recurrent Education to Lifelong Learning	329	(10)
Kjell Rubenson
Towards New Lifelong Learning Contracts in Sweden	339	(28)
Kenneth Abrahamsson
How to Make Lifelong Learning a Reality: Implications for the Planning of Educational Provision in Australia	367	(12)
Phillip McKenzie
Lifelong Learning: a Monitoring Framework and Trends in Participation	379	(26)
Abrar Hasan
PART TWO
Structures and Programs in Lifelong Learning
Judith Chapman
Schools and the Learning Community: Laying the Basis for Learning Across the Lifespan	405	(42)
Judith Chapman
David Aspin
Integrity, Completeness and Comprehensiveness of the Learning Environment: Meeting the Basic Learning Needs of All Throughout Life	447	(26)
Jan Visser
Innovative Teachers: Promoting Lifelong Learning for All	473	(28)
Christopher Day
Lifelong Learning and Tertiary Education: The Learning University Revisited	501	(28)
Chris Duke
Universities as Centres for Lifelong Learning: Opportunities and Threats at the Institutional Level	529	(16)
Ruth Dunkin
Alan Lindsay
Islands and Bridges: Lifelong Learning and Complex Systems of Higher Education in Canada	545	(16)
Glen Jones
The Impact of the Dearing Report on UK Higher Education	561	(8)
Michael Shattock
Lifelong Learning and Technical and Further Education	569	(22)
Nic Gara
Learning Communities for a Learning Century	591	(28)
Norman Longworth
Lifelong Learning and the Learning Organization	619	(26)
James Walker
The Practice: Formal, Informal and Non-formal Initiatives in Learning Across the Lifespan
Michael Hatton
Community Colleges and Lifelong Learning: Canadian Experiences	645	(18)
Paul Gallagher
William Day
From Literacy to Lifelong Learning in Tanzania	663	(18)
Alix Yule
Lifelong Learning and the Private Sector	681	(14)
William Hanna
Pierre Haillet
Recent Trends in the Practice of Lifelong Learning and Adult Education in Russia	695	(18)
Joseph Zajda
Community Empowerment Through Lifelong Community Learning in Developing Countries	713	(20)
Sharmala Naidoo
Lifelong Learning, the Individual and Community Self-help	733	(22)
John Wilson
New Lives for Old: Lifelong Learning Among the Indigenous Peoples of Taiwan and Canada	755	(10)
Huang Tung-Chion
Akiyo Pahalaan
John Steckley
Promoting Lifelong Learning in Developing Countries: The Institutional Environment	765	(12)
Ravi Palepu
Learning in the Third Age	777	(22)
Leslie Dale
Index of Names	799	(8)
Index of Subjects	807