Lifelong Learning: Education Across the Lifespan - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 041531884X ISBN 13: 9780415318846

Publisher: Routledge, 2003

Synopsis

'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 university
* The school curriculum
* Vocational studies.
With contributors from China, Africa, USA, Canada, UK and other European countries, Lifelong Learning offers a comprehensive and challenging account of issues arising from varying lifelong learning decisions, and exposes the impact these decisions have on such a large majority of the population.

About this title

Review:

'This book is a comprehensive overview of views about lifelong learning. It provides essential/interesting background reading for distance educators ... This collection is a major contribution to lifelong learning discourse and thinking and should also be to development policy.' - Michael Richardson, Open Learning

'There is a rapidly expanding literature on lifelong learning. This book is a very useful contribution to the literature, particularly from the perspective of the UK ... [It] is recommended for policymakers, practitioners and researchers interested in this key topic of educational development.' - International Journal of Education Development

From the Back Cover:

Lifelong learning increasingly dominates discussions of post-compulsory education and training policies. Although the idea of lifelong learning has been most frequently used in discussions of higher and adult education and vocational training, it further provides a framework for debating and analysing the front end of education as well as its post-school phases.

Lifelong Learning examines the issues in four sections:

Theoretical Perspectives; Curriculum; International Perspectives; and Widening Participation. Such a mix serves to enrich the readers' interdisciplinary perspectives on contemporary initiatives. These sections include studies on important topics such as:
-- community education
-- popular education
-- higher education
-- the corporate university
-- the school curriculum
-- vocational studies

With contributors from China, Africa, USA, Canada, UK and other European countries, Lifelong Learning offers a comprehensive and challenging account of issues arising from varying lifelong learning decisions, and exposes the impact these decisions have on such a large majority of the population.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 041531884X
• ISBN 13: 9780415318846
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 344
• Editor: Field John