Lifelong Learning – Signs, Discourses, Practices

✍ Scribed by Robin Usher, Richard Edwards (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 185
• Series: Lifelong Learning Book Series 8
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This text explores the different ways in which the various social practices in which people participate becomes signed as learning, how and why that occurs and with what consequences. It takes seriously the linguistic turn in social theory to draw upon semiotics and poststructuralism through which to explore the significance of lifelong learning as an emerging discourse in education. The text explores the different ways in which learning conveys meaning and is given meaning. Given this, lifelong learning therefore is a way, and a significant way, in which learning is fashioned. The text then explores the notion that, if learning is lifelong and lifewide, what precisely is learning as distinct from other social practices and how those practices are given meaning as learning.

✦ Table of Contents

Setting the Scene....Pages 1-15
Signing the Social....Pages 17-33
Lifelong Learning As a Semiotic Process....Pages 49-68
The Language Games of Lifelong Learning....Pages 69-88
Signing Power in Lifelong Learning....Pages 89-105
Fashioning Political Spaces....Pages 107-125
Mobilizing the Lifelong Learner....Pages 127-145
Connecting Lifelong Learning....Pages 147-164
Lifelong Learning as Technique, and…....Pages 165-171
Lines of Flight…....Pages 173-182

✦ Subjects

Educational Philosophy; Education & Society; Educational Policy; Curriculum Studies; Learning & Instruction