1st Edition
Learning Outside the Academy International Research Perspectives on Lifelong Learning
Introduction: Tangled up in learning Part One: Theory, Methods, Concepts 1. Informal learning: the challenge for research 2.Theorizing pedagogy within social action contexts: a case study of a South African trade union 3. Inside out of experiential learning: fluid bodies, co-emergent minds 4.European policies on ‘non-formal’ learning: a genealogical review Part Two: Learning Processes 5.Combining work and learning: the disturbing challenge of practice 6. Pedagogic learning in the pedagogic workplace 7. Recognition of tacit skills and knowledge in work re-entry: modelling of learning processes and outcomes 8. Learning in non-formal settings and the development of ‘really useful’ knowledge 9. Knowledge and learning in social movements: issues and opportunities for adult community education Part Three: Learning Outcomes 10. Learning in action: lessons from poor women in the South 11. Re-reading the texts of RPL: what recontextualizing principles are coded into the selection of curriculum resources? 12. Learning in the new work order 13. Lifelong learning: reaching regions where other learning doesn't reach 14. Researching outside the academy: emerging themes
Biography
Richard Edwards is Professor of Education at the University of Stirling and is on the Management Group of the Centre for Research in Lifelong Learning.
"This collection will be uniquely valuable to educators and researchers whose interests lie in learning beyond curricula, specifically, professionals who work in or study experiential, informal, community-based, and work-based learning."--Lorraine Carter, Canadian Journal of University Continuing Education (Fall 2008), Vol. 34, No. 2: 136-138
