Adult education, continuous learning

Since most research on work focuses on paid work, and most literature on education concentrates on schools, it is not surprising that studies on the relations between work and learning emphasize the relations between paid employment and organized education.

Accelerated substantial progress regarding many fields of production and services imposes pressure upon the labor market.

This book records the stories of doctoral study experiences of the twenty-two writers.

This book explains and demonstrates how indigenous communities-built on traditional knowledge, culture and language-can be extended and strengthened by (1) the new, integrated methodology of Lifelong Action Learning (LAL), and (2) new approaches to learning and development as exemplified by the system of GULL (Global University for Lifelong Learning).

This book presents an entirely new perspective on professional learning and knowledge based on perspectives on the knowledge society and in particular an interpretation of Knorr Cetina's work on scientific 'Epistemic cultures'.

This book presents some of the most trenchant critical analyses of the widespread claims for the recent emergence of a knowledge economy and the attendant need for greater lifelong learning.

The rise of knowledge workers has been widely heralded but there has been little research on their actual learning practices.

Measuring competencies acquired over the course of higher education is an area of research that largely has been neglected.

This book identifies key elements of an international framework to develop systems-level change to promote access to education, including higher education, for socio-economically marginalized groups.

This book offers an international perspective on the growing interest worldwide in lifelong learning, particularly as it relates to learning beyond compulsory education and initial occupational preparation: across working life.

This book critically reflects on the context in which lifelong learning policies and practices are organized in Europe with contributions of researchers and policy makers in the field.

This books explores the relationships between learning, democratic citizenship and the public sphere from thee interconnected angles: theory, methodology and research.

This book provides an in-depth insight into the Dedicated Education Units (DEU) clinical learning strategy.

This book addresses the questions why citizenship education is an important subject for students in further and adult education and why we need democratic colleges to support the study of citizenship education.

This book analyses and elaborates on learning processes within work environments and explores professional learning.

An introduction to the principles of climate change science with an emphasis on the empirical evidence for climate change and a warming world.

Due to the development of the international Education for All and Education for Sustainable Development movements, for which UNESCO is the lead agency, there has been an increasing emphasis on the power of education and schooling to help build more just and equitable societies.

This book provides the first comprehensive literature review on the acquisition and retention of complex skills in High Reliability Organizations.

The three concepts central to this volume-practice, learning and change-have received very different treatments in the educational literature, an oversight directly confronted here.

This volume is aimed at all those who wonder about the mechanisms and effects of the disclosure of knowledge.

This, the first comprehensive academic volume on vocational education and training (VET) or career and technical education in the United States, features insights into a variety of issues in this field of research.

Effective knowing and learning for vocational purposes must take account of the wide range of variables that impact on knowledge formation and that promote learning.

This book is founded on the idea that 'becoming' is the most useful defining concept for a new 'professional' class whose members understand that development in their working lives is an open-ended, lifelong process of refinement and learning.

This book is concerned with the general issues of ageing, learning and education for the elderly and then with the more specific issues of why, how and what elders want to learn.

In recent decades, education at all levels has been seriously impoverished by a growing obsession with standards, targets, skills and competences.

This important book breaks new ground in addressing issues of gendered learning in different contexts across the (adult) life span at the start of the 21st century.

This book bridges the gap between Education for Sustainable Development and community development and examines the contributions of critical environmental education as a theoretical framework to the policy, research, and practice of Education for Sustainable Development.

This publication aims to identify what works in the policy and practice of adult learning, drawing on the experience of nine OECD countries: Canada, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom (England).

Norway is a test-bed for the implementation of a bold vision of lifelong learning.

The phenomenon of social exclusion has become one of the outstanding problems on the eve of the 21st century.

This publication provides policy guidance in an area that has been given little policy priority until recent years.

During the 1990s, the workplace was rediscovered as a rich source of learning.

There is considerable and growing interest in professionals learning across their working lives.

Action leadership is a creative, innovative, collaborative and self-developed way to lead.

This book seeks to develop the philosophy of Heidegger notion and reflects the growing importance of work based studies which is becoming of special interest to higher education institutions and commercial organisations.

Practice-based learning-the kind of education that comes from experiencing real work in real situations-has always been a prerequisite to qualification in professions such as medicine.

Stehen Sie sich immer wieder selbst im Weg?

What are the key ideas that underpin learning from experience?

El sistema tradicional  en el que hemos crecido, y en el que continúan creciendo muchos niños, está centrado en las certezas, en los resultados fijos, en una experiencia única para todos.

En este libro, el lector encontrará numerosas técnicas, recursos, reflexiones y consejos que le serán de gran utilidad para iniciarse en la maravillosa práctica de la Narración Oral y así ser capaz de contar todo tipo de relatos, cuentos y narraciones a una gran variedad de público; en cualquier lugar y ambiente, y ante distintas audiencias o contextos.

En la sociedad actual la globalización influye en el mercado mundial y en los procesos de enseñanza-aprendizaje.

Este manual se centra en una metodología de trabajo emocional con grupos basada en círculos a la que las autoras se refieren como creación de espacios azules, o contextos de intercambio seguros comprometidos con el desarrollo de las personas.

Los alumnos necesitan sentirse apreciados, valorados, tener un propósito elevado en la vida.

This essential text introduces criminal justice students to the topics of stress and wellness in personal and professional pursuits and provides them with the tools they will need to identify the signs of stress in their own lives and the lives of others.

Written to give a clear articulation and formulation to the Indian Community college system in its all respects, the book, first on the subject, gives a clear idea how to start the community college, steps at starting, development of a curriculum, of teaching, job orientation, governance and administration, recognition and accredition, its origin and ideals, role of universities, and target groups.

In einer Welt, die sich schneller dreht als je zuvor, wird die Fähigkeit, neues Wissen rasch zu erfassen und langfristig zu behalten, immer wichtiger.

Hast du jemals darüber nachgedacht, wie viel Macht deine Worte haben?

Das Berufsbild von Schulleitung gleicht immer mehr dem eines Mangers.

In dem Buch "Ein kleines Buch über das Selbstbewusstsein" geht es darum, dem Leser eine kleine Übersicht zugeben, was Selbstbewusstsein ist, welche Wege dorthin führen und wie man diese am besten geht.