Lifelong Learning Products

Edited by Vicky Duckworth, Gordon Ade-Ojo

This volume makes a timely contribution to our understanding of literacy as a multi-faceted, complexly situated activity. Each chapter provides the reader with a fresh perspective into a different site for literate behaviour, approaches, design and relationships, and offers an exploration into the…

Paperback – 2016-10-31 
Routledge
Routledge Research in Education

By Knud Illeris

Having published in 11 languages and sold in more than 100,000 copies, this fully revised edition of How We Learn examines what learning actually is and why and how learning and non-learning takes place. Focusing exclusively on learning itself, it provides a comprehensive yet accessible…

Paperback – 2016-10-21 
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By Kenneth Wain

This book, first published in 1987, provides a rigorous philosophical analysis of lifelong education. The author presents his arguments simply and directly so that the book is accessible to students who are new to philosophy and adult education.…

Hardback – 2016-09-07
Routledge
Routledge Library Editions: Philosophy of Education

By Victoria J. Marsick, Karen Watkins

Today, rapid change is a constant challenge in the workplace, and thousands of individuals need to be involved in continuous learning. Traditional training approaches, however, do not emphasise informal and incidental learning. Furthermore, since informal learning us seldom designed, learning…

Paperback – 2016-08-03
Routledge
Routledge Revivals

Edited by Marcella Milana, John Holford, Vida A. Mohorcic Spolar

Adult and Lifelong Education explores why politicians, researchers, and practitioners involved in educating post-school young people and adults have quietly abandoned the term ‘education’ in favour of ‘learning’. Bringing together contributions from experienced as well as younger scholars, and from…

Hardback – 2016-04-06
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Edited by Eric Midwinter

First published in 1984, this collection of essays was the first account of the development of the University of the Third Age in Britain (U3A). Changing employment patterns and increasing pressure on traditional areas of secondary and higher education has led to the idea that learning can be a…

Paperback – 2016-03-12
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Routledge Revivals

Edited by Soong Hee Han, Peter Jarvis

Sparked by global capitalism’s demand for new knowledge and new commodities, as well as new logistical systems to deliver them, the nature of education has changed significantly. Universities, in striving to become a part of this knowledge society, have focused on responding to these demands, at…

Hardback – 2015-10-01
Routledge

Edited by Simon McGrath, Qing Gu

This timely Handbook takes stock of the range of debates that characterise the field of international education and development, and suggests key aspects of a research agenda for the next period. It is deliberately divergent in its approach, recognising the major ideological and epistemological…

Hardback – 2015-08-06
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Routledge International Handbooks

By Nicholas Boreham, Martin Fischer

Work Process Knowledge brings together the findings of twenty-four leading researchers on new forms of work and the demands these place on workers' knowledge and skill. Their findings, based on a new set of investigations in a wide range of manufacturing and service industries, identify the kinds…

Paperback – 2015-02-09
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By Malcolm S. Knowles, Elwood F. Holton III, Richard A. Swanson

How do you tailor education to the learning needs of adults? Do they learn differently from children? How does their life experience inform their learning processes? These were the questions at the heart of Malcolm Knowles’s pioneering theory of andragogy which transformed education theory in the…

Paperback – 2015-02-05
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Edited by Joan Solomon

This is the first book to provide a detailed overview and analysis of autodidactism, or self-education. Autodidacts' strong preference for teaching themselves is likely to manifest itself, in childhood, as a pronounced resistance to formal schooling. However, in later life, an autodidact's passion…

Paperback – 2014-12-23
Routledge

By Mary Ann Maslak

This book examines the ways in which formal and non-formal education can contribute to women’s successful design, development and operation of small businesses in rural settings. Calling on varied, pertinent social theories, the book examines profitable businesses operated by Dongxiang Muslim women…

Hardback – 2014-11-06
Routledge
Routledge Research in Lifelong Learning and Adult Education