Overview
- Substantially revised and updated edition of International Handbook of Lifelong Learning
- Most comprehensive survey, analysis, exploration and development of problems, themes and issues in the field of lifelong learning
- State of the art contributions from a wide range of international contributors from an extensive number of countries
- Lifelong learning policies, programs and practices are being conceived, articulated, implemented and assessed
Part of the book series: Springer International Handbooks of Education (SIHE, volume 26)
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About this book
The second edition of the International Handbook of Lifelong Learning is extensive, innovative, and international in scope, remit and vision, inviting its readers to engage in a critical re-appraisal of the theme of “lifelong learning”. It is a thorough-going, rigorous and scholarly work, with profound and wide-ranging implications for the future of educating institutions and agencies of all kinds in the conception, planning and delivery of lifelong learning initiatives. Lifelong learning requires a wholly new philosophy of learning, education and training, one that aims to facilitate a coherent set of links and pathways between work, school and education, and recognises the necessity for government to give incentives to industry and their employees so they can truly “invest” in lifelong learning. It is also a concept that is premised on the understanding of a learning society in which everyone, independent of race, creed or gender, is entitled to quality learning that is truly excellent.
This book recognises the need for profound changes in education and for goals that are critically important to education, economic advancement, and social involvement. To those concerned about the future of our society, our economy and educational provision, this book provides a richly illuminating basis for powerful debate. Drawing extensively on policy analyses, conceptual thinking and examples of informed and world-standard practice in lifelong learning endeavours in the field, both editors and authors seek to focus readers' attention on the many issues and decisions that must be addressed if lifelong learning is to become a reality for us all.
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Keywords
- analysis
- communal learning
- community development
- comparative
- competitiveness
- concepts
- concepts
- curriculum studies
- curriculum studies
- economic advancement
- economic advancement
- economic changes
- economic changes
- economic development
- economic development
- educating institutions
- education and training
- educational change
- educational policy
- educational research
- educational theory
- global learning
- globalisation
- individual development
- individual learning
- inequalities
- information technology
- knowledge technology
- learning society
- life-course
- lifelong learning policies
- lifespan
- personal growth
- philosophy of education
- policy and practice
- professional learning
- school
- school inclusion
- social mobility
- social responsibility
- teacher education
- theories
- values
- vocational education
- work
- workplace learning
Table of contents (55 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Second International Handbook of Lifelong Learning
Editors: David N. Aspin, Judith Chapman, Karen Evans, Richard Bagnall
Series Title: Springer International Handbooks of Education
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2360-3
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-2359-7Published: 18 January 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-017-7904-3Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-2360-3Published: 18 January 2012
Series ISSN: 2197-1951
Series E-ISSN: 2197-196X
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XCV, 958
Topics: Lifelong Learning/Adult Education, International and Comparative Education, Educational Policy and Politics, Educational Philosophy, Sociology of Education