Researching Widening Access To Lifelong Learning
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| Author | : Beth Crossan |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 256 |
| Release | : 2004-07-15 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 1134353472 |
This authoritative volume is a truly international contribution to the worldwide debate on how best to widen access to lifelong learning. The first section of the book comprises research studies from around the world, reflecting the diversity of contexts in which widening access is researched and considers issues central to the access debate, including different understandings of the concept of access, organisational and structural change, curriculum development, entry policies, performance and retention and labour market outcomes. The second section illustrates diverse and innovative methodological approaches that have been employed by researchers in the field, and considers the range of approaches available. Given the growing concern around the world on the need to combat social exclusion and to improve economic circumstances through access to lifelong learning, this book acts as a unique reference point informing the ongoing debate, exploring the relationships between research, policy and practice.
| Author | : John Field |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 241 |
| Release | : 2009-06-03 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1134005571 |
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.
| Author | : Esther Oliver |
| Publisher | : Verlag Barbara Budrich |
| Total Pages | : 136 |
| Release | : 2010-09-15 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 3866497199 |
The importance of adult education is growing steadily— be it in relation with migration, matters of inclus - ion, the work place etc. Thus, this international perspective on the most important research issues in adult education is a wealth of knowledge for anyone related to this field. The book is composed as a text book and thus, provides didactic material for discussion and further exploration of research in the field of AE from an international perspective. From the Contents: EU policy in Education and AE: links with Research opportunities on the field Support for Research in Adult Education in the European Union Main areas of Research in AE at the International level · Research on Migration. · Research on Inclusion, Access and Participation · Professionals, Assessment and Counselling · Learning in the Workplace International organisations and networks with influence to Adult Education
| Author | : Richard Edwards |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 256 |
| Release | : 2006-11-22 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 1134213964 |
This book weaves together different strands of research in the area of lifelong learning that concentrates particularly on learning in alternative settings and ways, such experiential learning and informal and community learning. Drawing upon international research, the book examines how these strands of research can contribute to each other. The contributions to this book are based on material presented at a conference at the Centre for Research in Lifelong Learning, UK, and they focus on research into key issues of policy and practice in lifelong learning. Establishing a wider framework for debate about the meaning and significance of lifelong learning, this timely and thought-provoking book provides practitioners in the field with a relevant and current discussion on some very important ideas about non-formal education.
| Author | : Sue Jackson |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 272 |
| Release | : 2010-12-13 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 1136846921 |
Pt. 1. Learning communities -- pt. 2. Participation and non-participation -- pt. 3. Work-based learning and learning through work.
| Author | : Judith Chapman |
| Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
| Total Pages | : 382 |
| Release | : 2007-05-23 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 1402053223 |
In many countries, schools, universities and other traditional learning institutions are not providing for the educational needs of all members of the community. Many communities, particularly in regional, rural and disadvantaged areas, can offer only limited educational options. This book addresses the challenge of identifying effective ways of accommodating the learning needs of all people and in so doing achieving the goals of lifelong learning for all.
| Author | : Maria Slowey |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 304 |
| Release | : 2012-06-14 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 1136332987 |
The global expansion of participation rates in higher education continue more or less unabated. However, while the concept of lifelong learning has figured prominently in national and international educational policy discourse for more than three decades, its implications for the field of higher education has remained relatively underdeveloped. This book focuses on a particular dimension of the lifelong learning: higher education for those who have not progressed directly from school to higher education. Some will embark on undergraduate programmes as mature students, part-time and/or distance students; others wish to return to higher education after having completed (or not completed) a previous academic programme, while increasing numbers participate in postgraduate and continuing studies for a complex mix of professional and personal reasons. Adopting a comparative and international longitudinal perspective which goes beyond a snapshot view by building on the cases of a core group of ten OECD countries, this timely book investigates the ways in which important new developments impacting on higher education crystallise around the lifelong learning agenda: new technology and open source resources; the changing role of the state and market in higher education; the blurring of public and private boundaries; issues of equity and access in a time of global economic turmoil; the increased emphasis on research and international league tables; the changing nature of the education; and, the complex interaction of international, national and regional expectations which governments and other stakeholders have of universities and other public and private institutions of higher education. While focusing on the situation in Canada, USA, Japan, Australia, New Zealand and a wide variety of European countries, the book also assesses the issues from the perspective of developing countries. Launched by the Irish Minister of Education, this timely book is a must read. Find out more here: http://www4.dcu.ie/ovpli/herc/book_launch
| Author | : Susan Jackson |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 176 |
| Release | : 2014-10-29 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 1317849825 |
The connections and interactions of lifelong learning and social justice are complex and contested. Both are seen as a means to unconditional good, with little account taken of the inequalities and equalities located in constructions of power. This book develops critical ways to engage with international debates about lifelong learning and social justice through a range of competing and contested definitions, setting out some of the complexities and challenges of linking the two concepts. In particular, it engages in debates about the equalities and inequalities of learner identities, displacement and place. Its chapters consider those marginalised in complex and multiple ways, including gender, social class, ethnicity, age and migration. This book was originally published as a special issue of the International Journal of Lifelong Education.
| Author | : Jim Crowther |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 264 |
| Release | : 2008-03-25 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 113426044X |
This guide to lifelong learning brings together new writing from leading thinkers in the field to provide a critical summary of current developments in understanding adult learning and the societal context in which they are located.
| Author | : Brenda Morgan-Klein |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 246 |
| Release | : 2007-12-17 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 1134088302 |
This textbook gives a wide-ranging, research-informed introduction to issues in lifelong learning across a variety of educational settings and practices. Its very accessible approach is multi-disciplinary drawing on sociology and psychology in particular. In addition, issues are discussed within an international context. While there has been a proliferation of texts focussing on particular areas of practice such as higher education, there is little in the way of a broad overview. Chapters one to four introduce various conceptions of lifelong learning, the factors that impinge on learning through the life course, and the social and the economic rationale for lifelong learning. Chapters five-ten consider the varied sites of lifelong learning, from the micro to macro (from the home to the region to the virtual). Chapter eleven draws the strands together in the context of turbulence and continuing transition in personal and work roles, and against the background of future technological development. This timely overview will be relevant to education and training professionals, education studies students and the general reader.
