Adult Education and Lifelong Learning Books

New and Published Books

1. Women, War, Violence and Learning

   Edited by Shahrzad Mojab

   This anthology provides fresh theorization of gendered dimensions of learning, war, and violence, with a view to offering new insights on the impact of violence on women’s learning and well being. The collection is an important contribution to emerging interdisciplinary approaches to the role and...

   Published May 16th 2012 by Routledge
2. Knowledge and Innovation

   A Comparative Study of the USA, the UK and Japan

   By Helen Brown

   Series: Routledge Studies in Innovation, Organizations and Technology

   This new book presents case studies from the US, the UK and Japan. Packed full of vignettes from cases studies and subscribing to a socio-cultural approach rather than the often tacit assumption that knowledge and ‘technology transfer’ is a logistical problem, this excellent volume illuminates the...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
3. Toward Defining and Improving Quality in Adult Basic Education

   Issues and Challenges

   Edited by Alisa Belzer

   Published May 10th 2012 by Routledge
4. Changing Spaces of Education

   New Perspectives on the Nature of Learning

   Edited by Rachel Brooks, Alison Fuller, Johanna Waters

   In today’s modern climate, education and learning take place in multiple and diverse spaces. Increasingly, these spaces are both physical and virtual in nature. Access to and use of information and communication technologies, and the emergence of knowledge-based economies necessitate an...

   Published May 10th 2012 by Routledge
5. Global perspectives on higher education and lifelong learners

   Edited by Maria Slowey, Hans Schuetze

   The global expansion of participation rates in higher education continue more or less unabated. However, while the concept of lifelong learning has figured prominently in national and international educational policy discourse for more than three decades, its implications for the field of higher...

   Published May 9th 2012 by Routledge
6. World Yearbook of Education 2007

   Educating the Global Workforce: Knowledge, Knowledge Work and Knowledge Workers

   Edited by Lesley Farrell, Tara Fenwick

   Series: World Yearbook of Education

   The 2007 edition of this respected international volume considers the challenges facing work related education arising from the rapid expansion of the global economy and the impact of this on labour markets and individual workers. Including perspectives from the US, UK, Canada, Australia, Africa,...

   Published March 25th 2012 by Routledge
7. Local Literacies

   Reading and Writing in One Community

   By David Barton, Mary Hamilton

   Series: Routledge Linguistics Classics

   Local Literacies is a unique detailed study of the role of reading and writing in people’s everyday lives. By concentrating on a selection of people in a particular community in Lancaster, England, the authors analyse how they use literacy in their day-to-day lives. It follows four people in detail...

   Published February 29th 2012 by Routledge
8. Education and Incarceration

   Edited by Erica R. Meiners, Maisha T. Winn

   The United States of America is in possession of the largest prison population in the world, with 2.3 million people currently behind bars. This number is predominantly and disproportionately made up of communities of colour and poverty. Between 1987 and 2007, the U.S. prison population tripled;...

   Published December 19th 2011 by Routledge
9. From Adult Education to the Learning Society

   21 Years of the International Journal of Lifelong Education

   By Peter Jarvis

   Series: Education Heritage

   This unique text provides a valuable route map to the development of thinking in adult education and lifelong learning. It includes more than twenty-five seminal articles from the first two decades of the International Journal of Lifelong Education, written by leading authors in the field from the...

   Published December 14th 2011 by Routledge
10. Making Dyslexia Work for You

    2nd Edition

    By Vicki Goodwin, Bonita Thomson

    Written for dyslexic adults or anyone who thinks they might be dyslexic, this bold and imaginative book is deliberately concise and easy to dip into. User-friendly, essential guide to the world of study and work for anyone with dyslexia; Identifies the key needs of adults and young people who...

    Published November 21st 2011 by Routledge