Lifelong Learning: Education across the lifespan

✍ Scribed by John Field and Mal Leicester

Year: 2000
Tongue: English
Leaves: 352
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

'Lifelong Learning' is a hot issue for educators across the world, as societies everywhere are concerned with developing a literate, skilled and flexible workforce and to widen participation in education at all levels and for all age-groups. This book covers all the major issues, with well-known academic contributors working in the field and covering the topics of theoretical, global and curriculum perspectives, widening participation and the industrial university.Topics covered include: Community education Popular education Higher education The corporate university The school curriculum Vocational studies.With contributors from China, Africa, USA, Canada, UK and other European countries, Lifelong Learning offers a comprehensive and challenging account of issues arising from varying lifelong learning decisions, and exposes the impact these decisions have on such a large majority of the population.

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