Lifelong learning: education across the lifespan

This book examines the issue of lifelong learning including topics such as community education, popular education, higher education, the corporate university, the school curriculum, and vocational studies. There are contributors from China, Africa, the United States of America (USA), Canada, the United Kingdom (UK) and several European countries. The introductory chapter is 'Lifelong learning or permanent schooling?' by John Field and Mal Leicester. The remaining chapters are presented in four parts. Part one, entitled 'Theoretical perspectives', contains: Lifelong learning, lifelong...  [+] Show more

This book examines the issue of lifelong learning including topics such as community education, popular education, higher education, the corporate university, the school curriculum, and vocational studies. There are contributors from China, Africa, the United States of America (USA), Canada, the United Kingdom (UK) and several European countries. The introductory chapter is 'Lifelong learning or permanent schooling?' by John Field and Mal Leicester. The remaining chapters are presented in four parts. Part one, entitled 'Theoretical perspectives', contains: Lifelong learning, lifelong learning, lifelong learning: a recurrent education? / Richard Edwards; Community education and lifelong learning: local spice for global fare? / Rennie Johnston; The death of mass higher education and the birth of lifelong learning / Peter Scott; The corporate university / Peter Jarvis; Rights and obligations: values in lifelong education as a political programme / Kenneth H. Lawson; The evolution of the learning society: brain science, social science and lifelong learning / Jack Cohen and Mal Leicester. Part two, entitled 'Curriculum: Care or control?', contains: Defining learners' needs for lifelong learning / Kathryn Ecclestone; Adult cognition as a dimension of lifelong learning / Stephen Brookfield; Learning for living: opportunities and approaches within the school curriculum 5-16 / Val Millman; Learning, work and community: vocational studies and social values in the learning age / Terry Hyland; Life politics and popular learning / Jane Thompson. Part three, entitled 'International perspectives', contains: Lifelong learning for a new society: the South African case / Shirley Pendlebury and Penny Enslin; Confucianism, cultural revolution and corporate classrooms: China's attempts at 'a learning society' / John Morgan; Lifelong learning in Australia / David Aspin, John Collard and Judith Chapman; Lifelong learning: a North American perspective / Robin Barrow and Patrick Keeney; Europe and lifelong learning: investigating the political and educational rationale of expansionism / Klaus Kunzel. Part four, entitled 'Widening participation', contains: Learning in the Isles: evolving policies for lifelong learning in the Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom / John Field; Inclusive learning for 'active citizenship': disability, learning difficulties and lifelong learning / Mary Stuart; Black and other ethnic minority communities' learning needs / Alyson Malach; Lifelong learning and voluntary organizations / Konrad Elsdon; Education, training and adult refugees in the UK and Australia / Janet Hannah; Ageing with technology: adult viability in a technological world / Jane McKie; Reflections on lifelong learning and the Third Age / Alex Withnall; Lifelong learning: trade unions in search of a role / John McIlroy.

Selected papers are indexed from TD/TNC 70.375 to TD/TNC 70.384