Learning Networks In Adult Education

Author : Paul Fordham,Geoff Poulton,Lawrence Randle
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2018-12-07
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780429823428

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Learning Networks in Adult Education by Paul Fordham,Geoff Poulton,Lawrence Randle Pdf

Originally published in 1979, this book reports on a 3 year action research programme (The New Communities Project) which aimed in increase working-class participation in adult education. Basing their argument on the work of the Project, the authors contend that adult education must begin with the people themselves, to go on and assist their intellectual, social, psychological, cultural and political growth. In their view, adult education needs to be identified as something more flexible than 'classes', whilst also distinguishing between non-formal education and other kinds of community work or development. Providing different perspectives on the way in which a service relates to a particular area, the book's conclusions have a bearing on both practice and training in a variety of areas concerned with social intervention.

Author : Paul Fordham,G. A. Poulton,Lawrence Randle
Publisher : London ; Boston : Routledge & Kegan Paul
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Education
ISBN : 0710001126

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Learning Networks in Adult Education by Paul Fordham,G. A. Poulton,Lawrence Randle Pdf

Author : Andreas Fejes,Erik Nylander
Publisher : Springer
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-22
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783030109462

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Mapping out the Research Field of Adult Education and Learning by Andreas Fejes,Erik Nylander Pdf

This book discusses the current state of the art in research on the education and learning of adults, and how such research has been transformed through contemporary policy and research practices. Gathering contributions from leading experts in the field, the book draws on previous research, as well as new findings in order to provide a map of this research field and its contemporary history. The chapters address a number of questions, including: What constitutes this research field? What theories and methodologies dominate within the field? What “invisible colleges” are active in shaping this academic field, in marking out its contours and in transforming its contemporary battle zones? Who is publishing in the field and who is deemed worth citing? What is the relationship between the shift in state policy on adult education and the research that is conducted on the education and learning of adults? How has the research field changed over time in various western countries? What do these meta-reflections of the field tell us about possible future research endeavours? Rather than speaking from within the field, this is a book about the research field. The diversity of the chapters provide a fascinating resource for anyone interested in research on the education and learning of adults.

Author : Marcella Milana
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781317385752

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Global Networks, Local Actions by Marcella Milana Pdf

Global Networks, Local Actions: Rethinking adult education policy in the 21st century examines public policy developments in adult education, exploring the policy framing of adult education practice in a range of socio-cultural contexts, and contributing to the development of policy research from global and comparative perspectives. Drawing from multidisciplinary fields such as adult education, comparative and international education, and sociology, chapters analyse empirically grounded studies from the US, Italy, Argentina and Brazil. Each study helps to identify how political agents interact at international, regional, national and local scales, and what the implications are for publically-funded interventions in adult education. While this book recognises the complexity of adult education policy, it argues for the need to deconstruct the false belief that what is global in adult education may be intrinsically distinct from the characteristics of geographical or social territories in which adult education occurs. Instead, it points to localised norms and ideas on Adult Basic and Secondary Education as ultimately contained in, and constituting, what is at times perceived as global, or abstracted from definite geographical or social territories. This book calls for a global sociology of adult education in response to global challenges, and makes an important contribution to our understanding of developments in public adult education policy. As such, it will be of key interest to researchers, academics and postgraduate students in the fields of adult education, comparative and international education, education policy and politics, sociology of education, and global studies.

Author : Okojie, Mabel C.P.O.,Boulder, Tinukwa C.
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 756 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781799813071

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Handbook of Research on Adult Learning in Higher Education by Okojie, Mabel C.P.O.,Boulder, Tinukwa C. Pdf

In today’s globalized world, professional fields are continually transforming to keep pace with advancing methods of practice. The theory of adult learning, specifically, is a subject that has seen new innovations and insights with the advancement of online and blended learning. Examining new principles and characteristics in adult learning is imperative, as emerging technologies are rapidly shifting the standards of higher education. The Handbook of Research on Adult Learning in Higher Education is a collection of innovative research on the methods and applications of adult education in residential, online, and blended course delivery formats. This book will focus on the impact that culture, globalization, and emerging technology currently has on adult education. While highlighting topics including andragogical principles, professional development, and artificial intelligence, this book is ideally designed for teachers, program developers, instructional designers, technologists, educational practitioners, deans, researchers, higher education faculty, and students seeking current research on new methodologies in adult education.

Author : Marcella Milana,John Holford,Vida A. Mohorčič Špolar
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781317237815

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Adult and Lifelong Education by Marcella Milana,John Holford,Vida A. Mohorčič Špolar Pdf

Adult and Lifelong Education explores why politicians, researchers, and practitioners involved in educating post-school young people and adults have quietly abandoned the term ‘education’ in favour of ‘learning’. Bringing together contributions from experienced as well as younger scholars, and from Europe, North America, and Australasia, it draws on global, national, and local perspectives to reveal key features of adult education’s policy environment. At the book’s heart are three main concerns. First, what is the spatial reach of these developments, and what processes of fluidity and fixity emerge? Second, does increased state and international recognition of civil society’s role in adult education and learning help to voice grass-roots learning needs for individuals and communities? Or does it create new patterns of dependency and ‘domestication’? Finally, given the growing culture of monitoring, and the investment – of money, time and attention – which international organizations, national governments, and research institutes around the world are making in gathering information on people’s skills and knowledge, and how they use them, what is happening when literacy, numeracy, and problem-solving abilities are tested? How is this knowledge used – and abused – in various policy environments, and who benefits? The book is an outcome of the work of the European Society for the Research on the Education of Adults (ESREA) Research Network on Policy Studies in Adult Education’s inaugural conference, held at the University of Nottingham in 2012. This book was originally published as a special issue of Globalisation, Societies and Education.

Author : Wang, Victor X.
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2010-01-31
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781615206957

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Integrating Adult Learning and Technologies for Effective Education: Strategic Approaches by Wang, Victor X. Pdf

Integrating Adult Learning and Technologies for Effective Education: Strategic Approaches provides instructional approaches, relevant theoretical frameworks, and the latest empirical research findings in the area of adult learning and technology.

Author : Wang, Victor X.
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 1236 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2010-08-31
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781616929077

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Encyclopedia of Information Communication Technologies and Adult Education Integration by Wang, Victor X. Pdf

"The book provides comprehensive coverage and definitions of the most important issues, concepts, trends and theories in adult education, adult ESL (English as a Second Language) and information communication technologies, offering an in-depth description of key terms and theories/concepts related to different areas, issues and trends in adult education worldwide"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Rob Evans,Ewa Kurantowicz,Emilio Lucio-Villegas
Publisher : Springer
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-17
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789463003582

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Researching and Transforming Adult Learning and Communities by Rob Evans,Ewa Kurantowicz,Emilio Lucio-Villegas Pdf

Can adult education and learning be understood without reference to community and people’s daily lives? The response to be found in the chapters of this volume say emphatically no, they cannot. Adult learning can be best understood if we look at the social life of people in communities, and this book is an attempt to recover this view. The chapters of this volume reflect ongoing research in the field of adult education and learning in and with communities. At the same time the work of the authors presented here offers a very vital reflection of the work of the ESREA research network Between Local and Global – Adult Learning and Communities. The chapters showcase the broad range of professional practice, the variety in both methodology and theoretical background, as well as the impressive scope of field research experience the authors bring to bear in their papers. The first section provides the broad view of research into adult learning and community development emphasising how social movements are at the heart of local and global change and that they are critically important sources of power. The second section focuses in on the practice of educators/mediators working in local and regional contexts in which the tensions of the wider policy and discourse environment impact on adult learners. The third section privileges the view at the close level of research inside local communities in the field. International researchers and practitioners, particularly young researchers, who are active in adult learning and in local/global communities will be interested in this book. The emphasis of the chapters is on participatory and emancipatory social research. Empowerment of women in rural communities, involvement of communities in social and environmental movements, power-sharing in community research projects and the exposure of hegemonic, globalising forces at work in ethnic communities are among the themes developed in this volume.

Author : Chris Brown,Cindy L. Poortman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781351996976

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Networks for Learning by Chris Brown,Cindy L. Poortman Pdf

Educational researchers, policy-makers and practitioners are increasingly focusing their attention on Professional Learning Networks in order to facilitate teacher development and encourage school and school system improvement. However, despite the understanding that PLNs can contribute significantly to improving teaching practice and student achievement, there are key challenges regarding their use. These challenges include: ensuring PLNs can provide opportunities for generating and sharing knowledge within schools enabling teachers and professionals to direct their own development helping individuals change their practices through inquiry-led approaches facilitating partnerships which work across a variety of stakeholders In this new edited volume, Brown and Poortman evaluate these challenges from both a theoretical and practical approach. A multitude of perspectives from a team of international contributors covers: the importance of Professional Learning Networks the use of evidence within PLNs the impact of inter-school networks international cases of networks and communities the promotion and sustainability of PLNs Also featuring case studies and exemplars to contextualise sustainable learning networks, Networks For Learning is an accessible and thoroughly-researched book, which will be essential reading and a valuable resource for researchers, teachers and school leaders who are interested in developing professional learning networks.

Author : Esther Oliver
Publisher : Verlag Barbara Budrich
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2010-09-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783866497191

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Research and Development in Adult Education by Esther Oliver Pdf

The importance of adult education is growing steadily— be it in relation with migration, matters of inclus - ion, the work place etc. Thus, this international perspective on the most important research issues in adult education is a wealth of knowledge for anyone related to this field. The book is composed as a text book and thus, provides didactic material for discussion and further exploration of research in the field of AE from an international perspective. From the Contents: EU policy in Education and AE: links with Research opportunities on the field Support for Research in Adult Education in the European Union Main areas of Research in AE at the International level · Research on Migration. · Research on Inclusion, Access and Participation · Professionals, Assessment and Counselling · Learning in the Workplace International organisations and networks with influence to Adult Education

Author : Linda Marie Harasim
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0262082365

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Learning Networks by Linda Marie Harasim Pdf

The field; Learning networks: an introduction; Networks for schools: exemplars and experiences; Networks for higher education, training, and informal learning: exemplares and experiences; The guide; Designs for learning networks; Getting started: the implementation process; Teaching online; Learning online; Problems in paradise: expect the best, prepare for the worst; The future; New directions; Network learning: a paradign for the twenty-first century; Epilogue: email from the future; Appendixes; Indice.

Author : Malcolm S. Knowles,Elwood F. Holton III,Richard A. Swanson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2014-12-05
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781317812173

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The Adult Learner by Malcolm S. Knowles,Elwood F. Holton III,Richard A. Swanson Pdf

How do you tailor education to the learning needs of adults? Do they learn differently from children? How does their life experience inform their learning processes? These were the questions at the heart of Malcolm Knowles’s pioneering theory of andragogy which transformed education theory in the 1970s. The resulting principles of a self-directed, experiential, problem-centered approach to learning have been hugely influential and are still the basis of the learning practices we use today. Understanding these principles is the cornerstone of increasing motivation and enabling adult learners to achieve. This eighth edition has been thoughtfully updated in terms of structure, content, and style. On top of this, online material and added chapter-level reflection questions make this classic text more accessible than ever. The new edition includes: Two new chapters: Neuroscience and Andragogy, and Information Technology and Learning. Updates throughout the book to reflect the very latest advancements in the field. A companion website with instructor aids for each chapter. If you are a researcher, practitioner or student in education, an adult learning practitioner, training manager, or involved in human resource development, this is the definitive book in adult learning that you should not be without.

Author : Robin Usher,Ian Bryant
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-23
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136628290

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Adult Education as Theory, Practice and Research by Robin Usher,Ian Bryant Pdf

The authors argue that the aim of research should be to improve practice through a process of critical reflection. Focusing clearly on the everyday concerns and problems of practitioners, they emphasize the importance of practical knowledge. Their definition of ‘practice’ is wide, and includes the generation of theory and the doing of research as well as front-line teaching. They show how notions of ‘adult learning’ and ‘the adult learner’ have been constituted mainly through theory and research in psychology and sociology, and examine action research as a mode of understanding. They conclude by looking at the curriculum implications for the teaching of adult education as reflective practice.

Author : Brookfield, Stephen
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1986-06-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780335152261

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Understanding And Facilitating Adult Learning by Brookfield, Stephen Pdf

This book provides a critical examination of the myths surrounding adult education and its practice.