| Description |
xix, 321 pages ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction: Lifelong learning or permanent schooling? / John Field and Mal Leicester -- 1. Lifelong learning, lifelong learning, lifelong learning: a recurrent education? / Richard Edwards -- 2. Community education and lifelong learning: local spice for global fare? / Rennie Johnston -- 3. The death of mass higher education and the birth of lifelong learning / Peter Scott -- 4. The corporate university / Peter Jarvis -- 5. Rights and obligations: values in lifelong education as a political programme / Kenneth H. Lawson -- 6. The evolution of the learning society: brain science, social science and lifelong learning / Jack Cohen and Mal Leicester -- 7. Care or control? Defining learner's needs for lifelong learning / Kathryn Ecclestone -- 8. Adult cognition as a dimension of lifelong learning / Stephen Brookfield -- 9. Learning for living: opportunities and approaches within the school curriculum 5-16 / Val Millman -- 10. Learning, work and community: vocational studies and social values in the learning age / Terry Hyland -- 11. Life politics and popular learning / Jane Thompson -- 12. Lifelong learning for a new society: the South African case / Shirley Pendlebury and Penny Enslin -- 13. Confucianism, cultural revolution and corporate classrooms: China's attempts at'a Learning Society' / John Morgan -- 14. Lifelong learning in Australia / David Aspin, John Collard and Judith Chapman / [et al.] -- 15. Lifelong learning: a North American perspective / Robin Barrow and Patrick Keeney -- 16. Europe and lifelong learning: investigating the political and educational rationale of expansionism / Klaus Kunzel -- 17. Learning in the Isles: evolving policies for lifelong learning in the Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom / John Field -- 18. Inclusive learning for 'active citizenship': disability, learning difficulties and lifelong learning / Mary Stuart -- 19. Black and other ethnic minority communities' learning needs / Alyson Malach -- 20. Lifelong learning and voluntary organizations / Konrad Elsdon -- 21. Education, training and adult refugees in the UK and Australia / Janet Hannah -- 22. Ageing with technology: adult viability in a technological world / Jane McKie -- 23. Reflections on lifelong learning and the Third Age / Alex Withnall -- 24. Lifelong learning: trade unions in search of a role / John McIlroy |
| Summary |
'Lifelong Learning' is a hot issue for educators across the world, as societies everywhere are concerned with developing a literate, skilled and flexible workforce and to widen participation in education at all levels and for all age-groups. This book covers all the major issues, with well-known academic contributors working in the field and covering the topics of theoretical, global and curriculum perspectives, widening participation and the industrial university.Topics covered include:* Community education* Popular education* Higher education* The corporate unive |
| Notes |
First published paperback 2003 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Adult education.
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Adult learning.
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Continuing education.
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| Author |
Field, John, 1949-
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Leicester, Mal.
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| LC no. |
00036601 |
| ISBN |
0203183320 (ebook) |
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0203184076 |
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0750709901 |
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