Title | International Handbook of Lifelong Learning [electronic resource] / edited by David Aspin, Judith Chapman, Michael Hatton, Yukiko Sawano |
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Imprint | Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2001 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0916-4 |
Descript | LVIII, 820 p. online resource |
Section 1: Lifelong Learning: Conceptual, Philosophical And Values Issues -- 1.1 Towards a Philosophy of Lifelong Learning -- 1.2 Locating Lifelong Learning and Education in Contemporary Currents of Thought and Culture -- 1.3 Lifelong Learning and Personal Fulfillment -- 1.4 Political Inclusion, Democratic Empowerment and Lifelong Learning -- 1.5 Lifelong Learning and the Contribution of Informal Learning -- 1.6 Lifelong Learning, Changing Economies and the World of Work -- 1.7 From Adult Education to Lifelong Learning -- 1.8 Caring for the Adult Self -- 1.9 Lifelong Learning for a Learning Democracy -- 1.10 Lifelong Education: Some Deweyan Themes -- 1.11 Lifelong Learning in the Postmodem -- 1.12 Lifelong Learning: Small Adjustment or Paradigm Shift? -- Section 2: The Policy Challenge -- 2.1 Lifelong Learning Policies in Low Development Contexts: An African Perspective -- 2.2 Lifelong Learning and Developing Society -- 2.3 Lifelong Learning Policies in Transition Countries -- 2.4 Trends in and Objectives of Adult Higher Education in China -- 2.5 Lifelong Learning and the Leisure-Oriented Society: The Development and Challenges in the Far East -- 2.6 The Swedish Adult Education Initiative: From Recurrent Education to Lifelong Learning -- 2.7 Towards New Lifelong Learning Contracts in Sweden -- 2.8 How to Make Lifelong Learning a Reality: Implications for the Planning of Educational Provision in Australia -- 2.9 Lifelong Learning: a Monitoring Framework and Trends in Participation -- Section 3: Structures and Programs in Lifelong Learning -- 3.1 Schools and the Learning Community: Laying the Basis for Learning Across the Lifespan -- 3.2 Integrity, Completeness and Comprehensiveness of the Learning Environment: Meeting the Basic Learning Needs Of All Throughout Life -- 3.3 Innovative Teachers: Promoting Lifelong Learning for All -- 3.4 Lifelong Learning and Tertiary Education: The Learning University Revisited -- 3.5 Universities as Centres for Lifelong Learning: Opportunities and Threats at the Institutional Level -- 3.6 Islands and Bridges: Lifelong Learning and Complex Systems of Higher Education in Canada -- 3.7 The Impact of the Dearing Report on UK Higher Education -- 3.8 Lifelong Learning and Technical and Further Education -- 3.9 Learning Communities for a Learning Century -- 3.10 Lifelong Learning and the Learning Organization -- Section 4: The Practice: Formal, Informal and Non-formal Initiatives in Learning Across the Lifespan -- 4.1 Community Colleges and Lifelong Learning: Canadian Experiences -- 4.2 From Literacy to Lifelong Learning in Tanzania -- 4.3 Lifelong Learning and the Private Sector -- 4.4 Recent Trends in the Practice of Lifelong Learning and Adult Education in Russia -- 4.5 Community Empowerment Through Lifelong Community Learning in Developing Countries -- 4.6 Lifelong Learning, the Individual and Community Self-help -- 4.7 New Lives for Old: Lifelong Learning Among the Indigenous Peoples of Taiwan and Canada -- 4.8 Promoting Lifelong Learning in Developing Countries: The Institutional Environment -- 4.9 Learning in the Third Age -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects