Researching Transitions in Lifelong Learning

by Field; John

• ISBN13: 9780415495981
• ISBN10: 0415495989
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781134005567
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-07-10
• Publisher: Routledge

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

Troubling transitions: learning and the changing life course

Themes, Methods and Concepts

Lost and found in transition: the implications of G++identityG++, G++agencyG++ and G++structureG++ for educational goals and practices

A View of Canadian Lifelong-Learning Policy Culture through a Critical Lens

Time, Individual Learning Careers, and Lifelong Learning

Who Is The G++Responsible LearnerG++? Viewing learning careers through social narratives and recursive methodology

Older menG++s lifelong learning: common threads/sheds

Biography, Transition and Learning in the Lifecourse: The role of narrative

Changing Places of Learning

Approaches to Lifelong Learning: American Community Colleges and age inclusiveness

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

Worlds of difference: G++dual sectorG++ institutions and higher education transitions

Improving Transfer from Vocational to Higher Education: International lessons

Imagined transitions: social and organisational influences on the student life-cycle

Accumulating knowledge in researching technology enhanced learning: going with the flows

Transitions Through Working Life

Working out work: integrated development practices in organisations

"Drifting", "desperate" or just "diverse"? Researching young people in jobs without training

The limits of competency-based training and the implications for work

"Well, if the government wonG++t do it, we bloody well will!" Third Age Activism and Participatory Action Learning

Researching Transitions: trends and future prospects

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