UID:
kobvindex_HPB1027163516
Format:
1 online resource (256 pages)
ISBN:
9781134213962
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1134213964
Content:
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.
Note:
Book Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Contributors -- Introduction: Tangled up in learning -- Part I: Theory, methods, concepts -- 1 Informal learning: The challenge for research -- 2 Theorizing pedagogy within social action contexts: A case study of a South African trade union -- 3 Inside out of experiential learning: Fluid bodies, co-emergent minds -- 4 European policies on 'non-formal' learning: A genealogical review -- Part II: Learning processes -- 5 Combining work and learning: The disturbing challenge of practice -- 6 Pedagogic learning in the pedagogic workplace -- 7 Recognition of tacit skills and knowledge in work re-entry: Modelling of learning processes and outcomes -- 8 Learning in non-formal settings and the development of 'really useful' knowledge -- 9 Knowledge and learning in social movements: Issues and opportunities for adult community education -- Part III: Learning outcomes -- 10 Learning in action: Lessons from poor women in the South -- 11 Re-reading the texts of RPL: What recontextualizing principles are coded into the selection of curriculum resources? -- 12 Learning in the new work order -- 13 Lifelong learning reaching regions: Where other learning doesn't reach -- 14 Researching learning outside the academy: Emerging themes -- Index.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Edwards, Richard. Learning Outside the Academy : International Research Perspectives on Lifelong Learning. Milton : Taylor & Francis, ©2006 ISBN 9780415365857
Language:
English
Keywords:
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