Lifelong Learning: Education Across the Lifespan

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ISBN: 9780415318846 | 041531884X
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Copyright: 9/11/2003

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This one volume reference book covers all the major issues in lifelong learning in four sections: Theoretical Perspectives; Curriculum; International Perspectives; and Widening Participation.

List of tables and figure

viii

List of contributors

Introduction: Lifelong learning or permanent schooling?

xvi

JOHN FIELD AND MAL LEICESTER

PART 1 Theoretical perspectives

(74)

1 Lifelong learning, lifelong learning, lifelong learning: a recurrent education?

(9)

RICHARD EDWARDS

2 Community education and lifelong learning: local spice for global fare?

(17)

RENNIE JOHNSTON

3 The death of mass higher education and the birth of lifelong learning

(14)

PETER SCOTT

4 The corporate university

(13)

PETER JARVIS

5 Rights and obligations: values in lifelong education as a political programme

(9)

KENNETH H. LAWSON

6 The evolution of the learning society: brain science, social science and lifelong learning

(10)

JACK COHEN AND MAL LEICESTER

PART 2 Curriculum

(72)

7 Care or control? Defining learners' needs for lifelong learning

(12)

KATHRYN ECCLESTONE

8 Adult cognition as a dimension of lifelong learning

(13)

STEPHEN BROOKFIELD

9 Learning for living: opportunities and approaches within the school curriculum 5-16

102

(17)

VAL MILLMAN

10 Learning, work and community: vocational studies and social values in the learning age

119

(15)

TERRY HYLAND

11 Life politics and popular learning

134

(13)

JANE THOMPSON

PART 3 International perspectives

147

(66)

12 Lifelong learning for a new society: the South African case

149

(9)

SHIRLEY PENDLEBURYAND PENNY ENSLIN

13 Confucianism, cultural revolution and corporate classrooms: China's attempts at 'a Learning Society'

158

(13)

JOHN MORGAN

14 Lifelong learning in Australia

171

(20)

DAVID ASPIN, JOHN COLLARD AND JUDITH CHAPMAN

15 Lifelong learning: a North American perspective

191

(10)

ROBIN BARROWAND PATRICK KEENEY

16 Europe and lifelong learning: investigating the political and educational rationale of expansionism

201

(12)

KLAUS KÜNZEL

PART 4 Widening participation

213

(100)

17 Learning in the Isles: evolving policies for lifelong learning in the Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom

215

(13)

JOHN FIELD

18 Inclusive learning for 'active citizenship': disability, learning difficulties and lifelong learning

228

(11)

MARY STUART

19 Black and other ethnic minority communities' learning needs

239

(11)

ALYSON MALACH

20 Lifelong learning and voluntary organizations

250

(13)

KONRAD ELSDON

21 Education, training and adult refugees in the UK and Australia

263

(13)

JANET HANNAH

22 Ageing with technology: adult viability in a technological world

276

(13)

JANE MCKIE

23 Reflections on lifelong learning and the Third Age

289

(11)

ALEX WITHNALL

24 Lifelong learning: trade unions in search of a role

300

(13)

JOHN MCILROY

INDEX

313

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