Researching Widening Access To Lifelong Learning

Author : Beth Crossan,Jim Gallacher,Michael Osborne
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2004-07-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781134353477

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Researching Widening Access to Lifelong Learning by Beth Crossan,Jim Gallacher,Michael Osborne Pdf

This authoritative volume is a truly international contribution to the worldwide debate on how best to widen access to lifelong learning. The first section of the book comprises research studies from around the world, reflecting the diversity of contexts in which widening access is researched and considers issues central to the access debate, including different understandings of the concept of access, organisational and structural change, curriculum development, entry policies, performance and retention and labour market outcomes. The second section illustrates diverse and innovative methodological approaches that have been employed by researchers in the field, and considers the range of approaches available. Given the growing concern around the world on the need to combat social exclusion and to improve economic circumstances through access to lifelong learning, this book acts as a unique reference point informing the ongoing debate, exploring the relationships between research, policy and practice.

Author : Michael Osborne,Jim Gallacher,Beth Crossan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Education
ISBN : 1134353421

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Researching Widening Access to Lifelong Learning by Michael Osborne,Jim Gallacher,Beth Crossan Pdf

This authoritative volume is a truly international contribution to the worldwide debate on how best to widen access to lifelong learning. The first section of the book comprises research studies from around the world, reflecting the diversity of contexts in which widening access is researched and considers issues central to the access debate, including different understandings of the concept of access, organisational and structural change, curriculum development, entry policies, performance and retention and labour market outcomes. The second section illustrates diverse and innovative methodological approaches that have been employed by researchers in the field, and considers the range of approaches available. Given the growing concern around the world on the need to combat social exclusion and to improve economic circumstances through access to lifelong learning, this book acts as a unique reference point informing the ongoing debate, exploring the relationships between research, policy and practice.

Author : Penny Jane Burke
Publisher : Stylus Publishing, LLC.
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Education
ISBN : 1858562554

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Accessing Education by Penny Jane Burke Pdf

"Equality and social justice were the prime objectives of the first access courses. But the government's current lifelong learning policy has shifted the position of access students in ways that often impede their educational opportunities." "This research study draws on the views and experience of academics, access practitioners and, above all, access students themselves. Their accounts reveal how access as currently provided within the dominant discourse can intimidate the students it is meant to serve, reinforcing exclusion and poverty and reproducing unequal power relations." "Dr Burke and her access students show how a collaboratively developed pedagogy for access courses, committed to anti-classist, anti-sexist and antiracist approaches to teaching and learning, would empower students to succeed."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Ellen Boeren,Nalita James
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-23
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781351028400

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Advancing Theory and Research in Widening Participation by Ellen Boeren,Nalita James Pdf

Issues of access, social exclusion and widening participation dominate educational policy agendas and are a shared global challenge. Participation in higher education and adult lifelong learning activities can be a life-changing experience that opens up new opportunities. However, access remains unequal. People from lower socio-economic backgrounds, those living in the most deprived areas and people from minority ethnic groups are underrepresented. In this book, we focus on how we can move the field of widening participation forward, paying specific attention to the theories and methods we can use to better understand and tackle the problem of underrepresented groups in post-compulsory education, and how individuals and institutions can be supported. We argue that in order to make sense of these issues, it is important to engage in both the findings of widening participation research and the theoretical foundations which underpin them. This way, alternative perspectives on the widening participation agenda and emerging research and policy can be explored from alternative perspectives. This book was originally published as a special issue of Studies in Continuing Education.

Author : John Field,Jim Gallacher,Robert Ingram
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2009-06-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134005574

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Researching Transitions in Lifelong Learning by John Field,Jim Gallacher,Robert Ingram Pdf

In today’s society, people and organisations increasingly undergo processes of transition. Experiences of change affect all areas of life: our jobs, relationships, status, communities, engagement in civil society, lifestyles, even understandings of our own identity. Each person must expect and make ready for transitions, engaging in learning as a fundamental strategy for handling change. This is where lifelong learning steps in. From career guidance to third age programmes, from ‘learning to learn’ in kindergarten to MBA, from Mozart for babies to gender re-assignment counselling, people face a crowded world of learning activities designed to help them through transitions. Researching Transitions in Lifelong Learning presents new research from Britain, Australia and North America. The authors include leading scholars with established international reputations - such as Kathryn Ecclestone, Sue Webb, Gert Biesta, W. Norton Grubb, Nicky Solomon and David Boud - as well as emerging researchers with fresh and sometimes challenging perspectives. While emphasising the complexity and variety of people’s experiences of learning transitions, as well as acknowledging the ways in which they are embedded in the specific contexts of everyday life, the authors share a common interest in understanding the lived experiences of change from the learner’s perspective. This volume therefore provides an opportunity to take stock of recent research into transitions, seen in the context of lifelong learning, and outlines important messages for future policy and practice. It will also appeal to researchers worldwide in education and industrial sociology, as well as students on courses in post-compulsory education.

Author : Brenda Morgan-Klein,Michael Osborne
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2007-12-17
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781134088300

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The Concepts and Practices of Lifelong Learning by Brenda Morgan-Klein,Michael Osborne Pdf

This textbook gives a wide-ranging, research-informed introduction to issues in lifelong learning across a variety of educational settings and practices. Its very accessible approach is multi-disciplinary drawing on sociology and psychology in particular. In addition, issues are discussed within an international context. While there has been a proliferation of texts focussing on particular areas of practice such as higher education, there is little in the way of a broad overview. Chapters one to four introduce various conceptions of lifelong learning, the factors that impinge on learning through the life course, and the social and the economic rationale for lifelong learning. Chapters five-ten consider the varied sites of lifelong learning, from the micro to macro (from the home to the region to the virtual). Chapter eleven draws the strands together in the context of turbulence and continuing transition in personal and work roles, and against the background of future technological development. This timely overview will be relevant to education and training professionals, education studies students and the general reader.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Adult education
ISBN : 1903661145

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Researching Widening Access by Anonim Pdf

Author : John Field,Jim Gallacher,Robert Ingram
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2009-06-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134005567

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Researching Transitions in Lifelong Learning by John Field,Jim Gallacher,Robert Ingram Pdf

In today’s society, people and organisations increasingly undergo processes of transition. Experiences of change affect all areas of life: our jobs, relationships, status, communities, engagement in civil society, lifestyles, even understandings of our own identity. Each person must expect and make ready for transitions, engaging in learning as a fundamental strategy for handling change. This is where lifelong learning steps in. From career guidance to third age programmes, from ‘learning to learn’ in kindergarten to MBA, from Mozart for babies to gender re-assignment counselling, people face a crowded world of learning activities designed to help them through transitions. Researching Transitions in Lifelong Learning presents new research from Britain, Australia and North America. The authors include leading scholars with established international reputations - such as Kathryn Ecclestone, Sue Webb, Gert Biesta, W. Norton Grubb, Nicky Solomon and David Boud - as well as emerging researchers with fresh and sometimes challenging perspectives. While emphasising the complexity and variety of people’s experiences of learning transitions, as well as acknowledging the ways in which they are embedded in the specific contexts of everyday life, the authors share a common interest in understanding the lived experiences of change from the learner’s perspective. This volume therefore provides an opportunity to take stock of recent research into transitions, seen in the context of lifelong learning, and outlines important messages for future policy and practice. It will also appeal to researchers worldwide in education and industrial sociology, as well as students on courses in post-compulsory education.

Author : Ellen Boeren
Publisher : Springer
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781137441836

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Lifelong Learning Participation in a Changing Policy Context by Ellen Boeren Pdf

Drawing on the role of individuals, education and training providers and countries' social policy actions, and borrowing insights from psychology, sociology and economics, this book works towards an interdisciplinary theory of adult lifelong learning participation. It explores the fragmented evidence of why adults do or do not participate in adult lifelong learning activities and focuses on the relevance of policy, the social character and expected benefits of lifelong learning participation and discusses the potential implications for policy, practice and research.

Author : Esther Oliver
Publisher : Verlag Barbara Budrich
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 51,8 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 : John Field,Mal Leicester
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2002-01-04
Category : Education
ISBN : 0203183320

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Lifelong Learning by John Field,Mal Leicester Pdf

'Lifelong Learning' is a hot issue for educators across the world, as societies everywhere are concerned with developing a literate, skilled and flexible workforce and to widen participation in education at all levels and for all age-groups. This book covers all the major issues, with well-known academic contributors working in the field and covering the topics of theoretical, global and curriculum perspectives, widening participation and the industrial university. Topics covered include: * Community education * Popular education * Higher education * The corporate university * The school curriculum * Vocational studies. With contributors from China, Africa, USA, Canada, UK and other European countries, Lifelong Learning offers a comprehensive and challenging account of issues arising from varying lifelong learning decisions, and exposes the impact these decisions have on such a large majority of the population.

Author : Richard Edwards,Jim Gallacher,Susan Whittaker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2006-11-22
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781134213955

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Learning Outside the Academy by Richard Edwards,Jim Gallacher,Susan Whittaker Pdf

This book weaves together different strands of research in the area of lifelong learning that concentrates particularly on learning in alternative settings and ways, such experiential learning and informal and community learning. Drawing upon international research, the book examines how these strands of research can contribute to each other. The contributions to this book are based on material presented at a conference at the Centre for Research in Lifelong Learning, UK, and they focus on research into key issues of policy and practice in lifelong learning. Establishing a wider framework for debate about the meaning and significance of lifelong learning, this timely and thought-provoking book provides practitioners in the field with a relevant and current discussion on some very important ideas about non-formal education.

Author : Akpovire Oduaran,Harbans S. Bhola
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 503 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2006-07-10
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781402043246

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Widening Access to Education as Social Justice by Akpovire Oduaran,Harbans S. Bhola Pdf

Among the greatest challenges of the twenty-first century is that of providing adequate educational opportunities to all citizens of the globe. This anthology – a tribute to the life and work of the Nigerian educationist Michael A. Omolewa – discusses the educational dimensions of social justice, reviews approaches to widening access, analyzes case studies from around the world, and considers future directions in education policy and research.

Author : Richard Edwards,Jim Gallacher,Susan Whittaker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2006-11-22
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781134213962

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Learning Outside the Academy by Richard Edwards,Jim Gallacher,Susan Whittaker Pdf

This book weaves together different strands of research in the area of lifelong learning that concentrates particularly on learning in alternative settings and ways, such experiential learning and informal and community learning. Drawing upon international research, the book examines how these strands of research can contribute to each other. The contributions to this book are based on material presented at a conference at the Centre for Research in Lifelong Learning, UK, and they focus on research into key issues of policy and practice in lifelong learning. Establishing a wider framework for debate about the meaning and significance of lifelong learning, this timely and thought-provoking book provides practitioners in the field with a relevant and current discussion on some very important ideas about non-formal education.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 75 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Continuing education
ISBN : 1901248968

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Education for All? by Anonim Pdf