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Lifelong Learning Reference

  1. Learning Trajectories, Violence and Empowerment amongst Adult Basic Skills Learners

    By Vicky Duckworth

    Series: Routledge Research in Lifelong Learning and Adult Education

    Learning Trajectories, Violence and Empowerment amongst Adult Basic Skills Learners offers deep insights into the lives of marginalised communities and the link between learning, literacy and violence, not previously carried out in-depth in a small scale study. It breaks the negative stereo-types...

    To Be Published November 10th 2013 by Routledge

  2. Inquiry into the Future of Lifelong Learning in the UK

    An International Analysis

    Edited by Peter Jarvis

    This volume offers a comprehensive international response to the National Institute of Adult Continuing Education (NIACE)’s inquiry into the future of lifelong learning in the UK. The book focuses upon some of the main themes of the inquiry, and analyses them from very broad perspectives undertaken...

    Published November 16th 2011 by Routledge

  3. Mentoring Teachers in Post-Compulsory Education

    A guide to effective practice, 2nd Edition

    By Bryan Cunningham

    The post-compulsory sector is complex and multifaceted, with highly diverse and sometimes challenging learner groups and subject to change from almost unending shifts in educational policy. Effective mentoring has a crucial role in the initial training of new teachers in the post-compulsory sector...

    Published October 20th 2011 by Routledge

  4. 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

  5. Higher Education and National Development

    Universities and Societies in Transition

    Edited by David Bridges, Palmira Juceviciene, Roberta Jucevicius, Terence H. Mclaughlin, Jolanta Stankeviciute

    Universities and societies around the world are involved in significant transition. Universities are now invited to expand their central aims and purposes in order to embrace a role in relation to the development of the societies in which they are located. This change of focus has major...

    Published March 21st 2012 by Routledge

  6. In at the Deep End: A Survival Guide for Teachers in Post-Compulsory Education

    2nd Edition

    By Jim Crawley

    Teachers working in Post Compulsory Education are recognised as being subject to a particularly acute set of pressures and challenges. These can include highly diverse and sometimes challenging student groups, trying to manage a complex curriculum which changes regularly and rapidly, and having to...

    Published July 29th 2010 by Routledge

  7. Learning Across Sites

    New Tools, Infrastructures and Practices

    Edited by Sten Ludvigsen, Andreas Lund, Ingvill Rasmussen, Roger Säljö

    Series: New Perspectives on Learning and Instruction

    The ever evolving, technology-intensive nature of the twenty-first century workplace has caused an acceleration in the division of labour, whereby work practices are becoming highly specialised and learning and the communication of knowledge is in a constant state of flux. This poses a...

    Published September 19th 2010 by Routledge

  8. The Routledge Encyclopaedia of UK Education, Training and Employment

    From the earliest statutes to the present day

    By John P. Wilson

    A comprehensive guide to all the main labour market initiatives and agencies combining education and employment in the UK, this encyclopaedia presents an historical progression from the Guilds and Statute of Artifices in 1563 through to present day initiatives and changes. Fully cross-referenced...

    Published September 1st 2010 by Routledge

  9. The Routledge International Handbook of Lifelong Learning

    Edited by Peter Jarvis

    Series: Routledge International Handbooks of Education

    As lifelong learning grows in popularity, few comprehensive pictures of the phenomenon have emerged. The Routledge International Handbook of Lifelong Learning provides a disciplined and complete overview of lifelong learning internationally. The theoretical structure puts the learner at the centre...

    Published October 28th 2010 by Routledge

  10. Understanding Adult Functional Literacy

    Connecting Text Features, Task Demands, and Respondent Skills

    By Sheida White

    "This is a genuinely scholarly work ... It is based on [analysis of] the most up-to-date quantitative surveys that we have on adult literacy. These surveys are the gold standard in terms of documenting adult literacy in the United States ...The author analyzes these extensive surveys and puts...

    Published September 27th 2010 by Routledge