Adult Education and Lifelong Learning

Drawing on ten years of research into educational innovation, incorporating scientists, teachers, students, industry professionals and policy makers, this book challenges the often adopted notion of a single, linear educational future. Considering alternative strategies for conceptualising the futur..

Using life history to overcome the dichotomy between individual and society, this book studies the life and learning of famous Korean artists and craftsmen, proposing a new conceptual tool to navigate lifelong learning from a postmodern perspective...

Using life history to overcome the dichotomy between individual and society, this book studies the life and learning of famous Korean artists and craftsmen, proposing a new conceptual tool to navigate lifelong learning from a postmodern perspective...

Literacy for QTLS is written specifically with the needs of all those training to teach or currently working in the lifelong learning sector in mind. This highly practical and easy-to-use text will help you identify your areas of strength and weakness, develop your knowledge and skills in order to p..

First published in 1984, this collection of essays was the first account of the development of the University of the Third Age in Britain (U3A). The theories of U3As in Britain, their development under the influence of European models, and the major influences on them are analysed. A comprehensive t..

Based on data gathered for the Learning Lives project, which sought to understand learning by questioning individuals about their life histories, this book seeks to define a new learning theory, based on the life-story narrative...

This book is perfect for development practitioners, adult education teachers and policy makers, as well as scholars and students within development studies and numeracy education...

This book is perfect for development practitioners, adult education teachers and policy makers, as well as scholars and students within development studies and numeracy education...

By 2010 the Government requires all teaching staff in the Lifelong Learning Sector to gain the QTLS (Qualified Teacher Learning and Skills) teaching qualification.  In addition to the new qualification, all those training to teach in the post compulsory/FE sector must also have reached an acceptable..

This book presents leading-edge perspectives and methodologies to address emerging issues of concern for professional learning in contemporary society. The conditions for professional practice and learning are changing dramatically in the wake of globalization, new modes of knowledge production, new..

This book presents leading-edge perspectives and methodologies to address emerging issues of concern for professional learning in contemporary society. The conditions for professional practice and learning are changing dramatically in the wake of globalization, new modes of knowledge production, new..

One of the most influential critical educators of the 20th century, Paulo Freire challenged those educational inequalities and conditions of injustice faced by oppressed populations. In this new edition of Reinventing Paulo Freire, Antonia Darder re-examines his legacy through reflections on Freirea..