Learning Outside the Academy: International Research Perspectives on Lifelong Le

Description: Learning Outside the Academy by Richard Edwards, Jim Gallacher, Susan Whittaker This text provides a forum for critical and analytical perspectives to inform practice, policy and research in experiential, informal, community and work-based learning. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description 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. Back Cover 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, informal and community learning. Drawing upon international research, the book Author Biography Richard Edwards is Professor of Education at the University of Stirling and is on the Management Group of the Centre for Research in Lifelong Learning. Table of Contents Introduction: Tangled up in learning Part One: 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 Two: 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 Three: 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 doesnt reach 14. Researching outside the academy: emerging themes Review "This collection will be uniquely valuable to educators and researchers whose interests lie in learning beyond curricula, specifically, professionals who work in or study experiential, informal, community-based, and work-based learning."--Lorraine Carter, Canadian Journal of University Continuing Education (Fall 2008), Vol. 34, No. 2: 136-138 Long Description 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, 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 will provide practitioners in the field with a relevant and current discussion on some very important ideas about non-formal education. Review Quote "This collection will be uniquely valuable to educators and researchers whose interests lie in learning beyond curricula, specifically, professionals who work in or study experiential, informal, community-based, and work-based learning."--Lorraine Carter, Details ISBN0415365856 Short Title LEARNING OUTSIDE ACADEMY Language English ISBN-10 0415365856 ISBN-13 9780415365857 Media Book Format Hardcover DEWEY 374 Year 2006 Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Edited by Susan Whittaker Illustrations 10 black & white tables Edition 1st DOI 10.1604/9780415365857 UK Release Date 2006-04-27 AU Release Date 2006-04-27 NZ Release Date 2006-04-27 Imprint Routledge Subtitle International Research Perspectives on Lifelong Learning Author Susan Whittaker Pages 256 Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd Publication Date 2006-04-27 Alternative 9780415759144 Audience Tertiary & Higher Education We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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