ABSTRACT

'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.

part 1|74 pages

Theoretical perspectives

chapter 2|17 pages

Community education and lifelong learning

Local spice for global fare?

chapter 5|9 pages

Rights and obligations

Values in lifelong education as a political programme

chapter 6|10 pages

The evolution of the learning society

Brain science, social science and lifelong learning

part 2|71 pages

Curriculum

chapter 7|12 pages

Care or control?

Defining learners' needs for lifelong learning1

chapter 9|17 pages

Learning for living

Opportunities and approaches within the school curriculum 5–161

chapter 10|15 pages

Learning, work and community

Vocational studies and social values in the learning age

part 3|66 pages

International perspectives

chapter 12|9 pages

Lifelong learning for a new society

The South African case

chapter 13|13 pages

Confucianism, cultural revolution and corporate classrooms

China's attempts at ‘a Learning Society’

chapter 15|10 pages

Lifelong learning

A North American perspective

chapter 16|12 pages

Europe and lifelong learning

Investigating the political and educational rationale of expansionism

part 4|100 pages

Widening participation

chapter 17|13 pages

Learning in the Isles

Evolving policies for lifelong learning in the Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom1

chapter 18|11 pages

Inclusive learning for ‘active citizenship’

Disability, learning difficulties and lifelong learning

chapter 22|13 pages

Ageing with technology

Adult viability in a technological world

chapter 24|13 pages

Lifelong learning

Trade unions in search of a role