Lifelong Learning: Concepts and Contexts

by Crowther; Jim

• ISBN13: 9780415353724
• ISBN10: 0415353726
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-01-13
• 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 up-to-the-minute 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

Illustrations	vii
List of contributors	viii
Foreword	xiv
Peter Jarvis
Acknowledgements	xvi
Introduction	1	(2)
Introduction: `the lifelong learning imagination'	3	(10)
Peter Sutherland
Jim Crowther
PART I Perspectives on adult and lifelong learning	13	(56)
What is special about adult learning?	15	(9)
Knud Illeris
An overview on transformative learning	24	(15)
Jack Mezirow
Managing change and transition: a psychosocial perspective on lifelong learning	39	(9)
Linden West
The application of the ideas of Habermas to adult learning	48	(10)
Mark Murphy
Ted Fleming
A troubled space of possibilities: lifelong learning and the postmodern	58	(11)
Richard Edwards
Robin Usher
PART II Institutions and issues for lifelong learning	69	(90)
Realizing a lifelong learning higher education institution	71	(11)
Shirley Walters
Towards a responsive work-based curriculum for non-traditional students in higher education	82	(12)
John Bamber
Changing to learning cultures that foster lifelong learners	94	(14)
Rose Evison
An analysis of the relations between learning and teaching approaches	108	(9)
Keith Trigwell
Lifelong learning: the role of emotional intelligence	117	(10)
Tina Goodwin
Susan Hallam
A comparison of Piaget's and Biggs's conceptions of cognitive development in adults and their implications for the teaching of adults	127	(11)
Peter Sutherland
Academic study as a social practice	138	(8)
Chrissie Boughey
Self-regulation: a multidimensional learning strategy	146	(13)
Martha Cassazza
PART III Informal and community contexts for learning	159	(84)
(Mis)recognizing lifelong learning in non-formal settings	161	(10)
John Preston
Social movements, praxis and the profane side of lifelong learning	171	(11)
Jim Crowther
Learning cities, learning regions, lifelong learning implementers	182	(14)
Norman Longworth
Literacy as social practice: travelling between the everyday and other forms of learning	196	(11)
Yvon Appleby
Mary Hamilton
Lifelong learning in the community: social action	207	(11)
Rod Purcell
Work and learning: implications for lifelong learning in the workplace	218	(12)
Hitendra Pillay
Lynn Wilss
Gillian Boulton-Lewis
Making a space for adult education in mental health: the Outlook Project experience	230	(13)
Fiona Dowie
Matthew Gibson
Index	243