Adult education, continuous learning

This book concerns the pursuit of wisdom in education, and the argument that wisdom - personified here as Sophia - is tragically marginalised or absent in current Western epistemological discourses.

Lifelong Learning is essential to all individuals and in recent years has become a guiding principle for policy initiatives, ranging from national economic competition to issues of social cohesion and personal fulfilment.

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Fundamentals of Workplace Learning is a comprehensive guide to how people learn in the workplace, and the issues and challenges involved.

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This book opens up ways to engage critically with what counts as innovatory practice in lifelong learning today, locating its discussion of innovations in lifelong learning within an international and comparative framework.

This book examines the nature of age as an aspect of social identity and its relationship to experiences of formal education.

This book explores the contemporary conditions of marginal work within the context of persistent unemployment, poverty, and homelessness in wealthy nations.

Modern societies demand high levels of literacy.

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Sustainability at Work is a compelling guide for anyone who seeks both a successful career and a career that makes a positive difference in society.

New graduate students are often unaware of the many hazards and pitfalls that occur during the dissertation process: intensive schedules, dwindling motivation, difficult or unavailable mentors, and research and publication complications.

In this collection of work, the contributing authors tackle the topic of non-formal education from a variety of disciplines, such as computer science, psychology, education, science education, literacy, music, art, and social studies by sharing original p

The definitive book on ethics for chemical dependency treatment professionals.

Der vorliegende Text beleuchtet den aktuellen Stand und die Herausforderungen der Digitalisierung in deutschen Schulen auf Grundlage einer breiten Datenbasis.

This book advocates for teacher professional development done differently.

As librarians move into the middle of their careers, they are more ready than ever to take on new leadership opportunities.

Aimed at library science students and librarians with newly assigned administrative duties the book is about improving one's thinking and decision making in a role as a library manager.

Customer Care provides a detailed course suitable for delivery to library staff at all levels.

A practical work outlining the theory and practice of using active learning techniques in library settings.

This volume of the "e;International Perspectives on Education and Society"e; series comparatively examines various two-year and community college institutions worldwide.

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How do you tailor education to the learning needs of adults?

This book explores the role of students' involvement in teacher professional development.

This book explores European governance and policy coordination within lifelong learning markets.

This book discusses the scientific developments on the new roles of interventions in career-and-life design (career education, career counseling, etc.

This book explores the potential for lifelong learning in dementia.

This book explores student-staff partnerships through a breadth of co-authored research projects.

This book presents thoughts on and experiences with the introduction of Theme-centered Interaction (TCI) into academia.

This book theorizes shadow education as a new component of curriculum, expanding the concept of curriculum to include this type of learning.

This book explores the lives, experiences and the formation of higher educational aspirations among marginalised migrant youth in South Africa.

This book compels professionals to actively imbibe self-awareness in their thought process in order to help them manage complexities in business.

Around the world, the landscape of Higher Education is increasingly shaped by discourses of employability, rankings, and student satisfaction.

This book examines the importance, and potential, of citizenship education, using extensive qualitative data from England and Sweden.

This multidisciplinary book represents an initial attempt to connect adult learning and knowledge management in theory and practice.

This book analyses how narrative fictions can be used by faculty and staff in the teaching of professionals in higher education.

This book examines how educational practice can be improved through practice-focused educational research.

This book explores the concept of resilience and its significance in responding to a rapid and ever-changing globalised world whilst critiquing its 'buzzword' status in contemporary times.

This book explores and progresses the concept of negotiation as a means of describing and explaining individuals' learning in work.

This book explores 'why some people experience post-traumatic growth leading to greater wisdom and others do not' and suggests that a critical variable is how one copes with that trauma: individuals who actively reflect on their experiences of trauma should develop higher levels of self-transcendent wisdom.

This book focuses on large and small group educational settings and offers brief strategies to engage learners to assure active learning strategies are core to the learning environment.

This book presents the authentic voices of science teachers engaged in practitioner inquiry as one component of a comprehensive professional development program.

This textbook is a guide to success during the PhD trajectory.

This book focuses on a renewed interest in work based learning in higher education.

This book presents multiple cultural and contextual takes on working performances of academic/writer/thinker, both inside and outside the academy.

The book offers a well-grounded vision of the significant theory and application of the concept of Capability as a lifecourse and lifespan development.

This edited volume uses an African-centred approach to examine a renewed vision of development education in Africa.

This book presents the most comprehensive discussion of emerging trends in higher education in the Asia Pacific, ranging from graduate attributes to integrated workplace learning, with an in-depth focus on work readiness, employability and career development.

The present book collects, integrates, and discusses the range of perspectives and discourses on agency at work.

This volume focuses on resilience in educational contexts which has emerged as an important field of research, with recent investigation into resilience of school students teachers, and post-secondary students and staff.