Learning outside the academy international research perspectives on lifelong learning / edited by Richard Edwards, Jim Gallacher and Susan Whittaker.
| Author/creator | Gallacher, Jim, 1946- |
| Other author | Edwards, Richard, 1956 July 2- |
| Other author | Whittaker, Susan. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | London ; New York : Routledge, 2006. |
| Description | xii, 239 p. : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Taylor & Francis eBooks |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Introduction: tangled up in learning / Richard Edwards, Jim Gallacher and Susan Whittaker -- Theory, methods, concepts -- Informal learning: the challenge for research / Veronica McGivney -- Theorizing pedagogy within social action contexts: a case study of a South African trade union / Linda Cooper -- Inside out of experiential learning: fluid bodies, co-emergent minds / Tara Fenwick -- European policies on "non-formal" learning: a genealogical review / Helen Colley, Phil Hodkinson and Janice Malcolm -- Learning processes -- Combining work and learning: the disturbing challenge of practice / David Boud -- Pedagogic learning in the pedagogic workplace / Janice Malcolm and Miriam Zukas -- Recognition of tacit skills and knowledge in work re-entry: modelling of learning processes and outcomes / Natasha Kersh and Karen Evans -- Learning in non-formal settings and the development of "really useful" knowledge / Lyn Tett -- Knowledge and learning in social movements: issues and opportunities for adult community education / Jim Crowther -- Learning outcomes -- Learning in action: lessons from poor women in the south / Salma Ismail -- Re-reading the texts of RPL: what recontextualizing principles are coded into the selection of curriculum resources? / Judy Harris -- Learning in the new work order / Jean Searle -- Lifelong learning: reaching regions where other learning doesn't reach / Kate Sankey and Mike Osborne -- Researching outside the academy: emerging themes / Jim Gallacher, Richard Edwards and Susan Whittaker. |
| General note | "Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada." |
| General note | Based on material presented at the 2nd international conference on lifelong learning held at the Centre for Research in Lifelong Learning in UK. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2005028806 |
| ISBN | 0415365856 (hardback : alk. paper) |
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