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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|74 pages
Theoretical perspectives
chapter 6|10 pages
The evolution of the learning society
part 2|71 pages
Curriculum
chapter 9|17 pages
Learning for living
chapter 10|15 pages
Learning, work and community
part 3|66 pages
International perspectives
chapter 13|13 pages
Confucianism, cultural revolution and corporate classrooms
chapter 16|12 pages
Europe and lifelong learning
part 4|100 pages
Widening participation