Researching Transitions in Lifelong Learning

by Field, John; Gallacher, Jim; Ingram, Robert

• ISBN13: 9780203875179
• ISBN10: 0203875176
• Copyright: 2009-06-03
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Summary

Researching Transitions in Lifelong Learning presents new research from Britain, Australia and North America. The authors include leading scholars with established international reputations - such as Kathryn Ecclestone, Norton Grubb, David Boud and Gert Biesta - as well as emerging researchers with fresh and sometimes challenging perspectives.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Troubling transitions: learning and the changing life course

Themes, methods and concepts

Lost in transition? The rise of æidentityÆ as a political and educational concern

Lifelong Learning As Critical Action: A comparative analysis of policy cultures and possibilities In todayÆs global change culture

Time, individual learning careers, and lifelong learning

Who is the æresponsible learnerÆ? Viewing learning careers through social narratives and recursive methodology

Older menÆs lifelong learning: common threads/sheds

Learning for Life and Learning from Life: Exploring Opportunities for Biographical Learning through the Lifecourse

Changing places of learning

US Community colleges and the provision of lifelong learning

Two conceptual models for facilitating learnersÆ transitions to new post-school learning contexts

Positioning themselves: Higher education transitions and ædual sectorÆ institutions

Mind the Gap: The student experience of direct entrants to higher education

Improving transfer from vocational to higher education: lessons from abroad

Imagined transitions, Muir Houston, Yann Lebeau

Moving Where? Problematising Knowledge Cumulation In Researching Technology Enhanced Learning

Transitions in and from working life

Locating learning in work: integrated development practices in organisations

"Drifting", "Desperate" or just "Diverse"? Researching young people in jobs without training

Biographical landscapes of learning and professional practice

Beyond the contextual: the importance of theoretical knowledge in vocational qualifications & the implications for work

"Well, if the government wonÆt do it, we bloody well will!" Third Age Activism. Vancouver, Canada

Conclusion

Researching transitions: trends and future prospects

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