Adult education, continuous learning

Action learning is a method of learning that takes place in a group - of colleagues or students.

An exploration of the world of higher education and higher learning, and its relationship to the corporate world and the global learning society.

An exploration of the world of higher education and higher learning, and its relationship to the corporate world and the global learning society.

An analysis of learning throughout the whole of life.

This text outlines the future roles of schools, business and industry, higher and adult education.

This text outlines the future roles of schools, business and industry, higher and adult education.

This work challenges some of the assumptions behind recent thinking on lifelong learning and discusses the idea of the learning society through a reappraisal of the relationship between the university and the community.

This work challenges some of the assumptions behind recent thinking on lifelong learning and discusses the idea of the learning society through a reappraisal of the relationship between the university and the community.

The new focus in learning is on developing the individual's capability.

The new focus in learning is on developing the individual's capability.

Following changes in education over the years, lecturers are under increased pressure with heavier workloads and more complex assessment duties.

Following changes in education over the years, lecturers are under increased pressure with heavier workloads and more complex assessment duties.

This text focuses on the political context of lifelong learning.

This text focuses on the political context of lifelong learning.

A discussion of the management of learning on short courses and in workshops, which may take place in a wide range of "e;educational"e; or training situations.

A discussion of the management of learning on short courses and in workshops, which may take place in a wide range of "e;educational"e; or training situations.

An analysis of learning throughout the whole of life.

Learning contracts have been a successful feature of many university/continuing education programmes over the last 20 years but many staff are still unfamiliar with them or have difficulty using them.

Learning contracts have been a successful feature of many university/continuing education programmes over the last 20 years but many staff are still unfamiliar with them or have difficulty using them.

Vocational education and training (VET) are major stepping stones in the development journey of any nation.

Kommunikation ist das Fundament jeder Beziehung – sie entscheidet darüber, ob ihr euch verstanden, unterstützt und verbunden fühlt oder ob Missverständnisse und Konflikte euch voneinander entfernen.

Making use of theory, reflection, narrativity and auto/biographical writing, Jane Thompson provides a comprehensive understanding of what learning really means, and what education can contribute to the struggles of working class women intent on changing the circumstances of their lives.

Making use of theory, reflection, narrativity and auto/biographical writing, Jane Thompson provides a comprehensive understanding of what learning really means, and what education can contribute to the struggles of working class women intent on changing the circumstances of their lives.

This text sets out to explain the issues and attributes of lifelong learning as well as outlining the many initiatives which are being taken to help understand the implications and new roles for many of our institutions.

This text sets out to explain the issues and attributes of lifelong learning as well as outlining the many initiatives which are being taken to help understand the implications and new roles for many of our institutions.

Improving Learning by Widening Participation in Higher Education presents a strong and coherent rationale for improving learning for diverse students from a range of socio-economic, ethnic/racial and gender backgrounds within higher education, and for adults across the life course.

Improving Learning by Widening Participation in Higher Education presents a strong and coherent rationale for improving learning for diverse students from a range of socio-economic, ethnic/racial and gender backgrounds within higher education, and for adults across the life course.

With life expectancy increasing, there is growing emphasis on encouraging older people to continue learning.

With life expectancy increasing, there is growing emphasis on encouraging older people to continue learning.

This book provides a blueprint for those interested in teaching from a pluralist perspective, regardless of ideology.

This book provides a blueprint for those interested in teaching from a pluralist perspective, regardless of ideology.

What should we teach in our schools and vocational education and higher education institutions?

What should we teach in our schools and vocational education and higher education institutions?

Reflective practice has moved from the margins to the mainstream of professional education.

Reflective practice has moved from the margins to the mainstream of professional education.

As lifelong learning grows in popularity, few comprehensive pictures of the phenomenon have emerged.

As lifelong learning grows in popularity, few comprehensive pictures of the phenomenon have emerged.

Large scale changes in work and education are a key feature of contemporary global transformations, with a pervasive politics that affects people's experiences of workplaces and learning spaces.

Large scale changes in work and education are a key feature of contemporary global transformations, with a pervasive politics that affects people's experiences of workplaces and learning spaces.

This fully revised and updated edition of Learning, Creating, and Using Knowledge recognizes that the future of economic well being in today's knowledge and information society rests upon the effectiveness of schools and corporations to empower their people to be more effective learners and knowledge creators.

In this study of the main conceptual and normative issues to which the education of the adult gives rise, the author demonstrates that these issues can be understood and resolved only by coming to grips with some of the central and most contentious questions in epistemology, philosophy of mind, ethics, and social philosophy.

In this study of the main conceptual and normative issues to which the education of the adult gives rise, the author demonstrates that these issues can be understood and resolved only by coming to grips with some of the central and most contentious questions in epistemology, philosophy of mind, ethics, and social philosophy.

What is the role of narrative in how people learn throughout their lives?

What is the role of narrative in how people learn throughout their lives?

Learning to Learn provides a much needed overview and international guide to the field of learning to learn from a multidisciplinary lifelong and lifewide perspective.

Learning to Learn provides a much needed overview and international guide to the field of learning to learn from a multidisciplinary lifelong and lifewide perspective.

Responding to the emerging needs of lifelong learners arguably represents one of the most fundamental challenges facing higher education systems of the countries of the developing world.

Responding to the emerging needs of lifelong learners arguably represents one of the most fundamental challenges facing higher education systems of the countries of the developing world.

Learners complain that they do not get enough feedback, and educators resent that although they put considerable time into generating feedback, students take little notice of it.

Learners complain that they do not get enough feedback, and educators resent that although they put considerable time into generating feedback, students take little notice of it.