Lifelong Learning - Signs, Discourses, Practices

✍ Scribed by Robin Usher, Richard Edwards

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 185
• Series: Lifelong Learning Book Series
• 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.

✦ Table of Contents

cover......Page 1
Lifelong Learning - Signs, Discourses, Practices......Page 2
Contents......Page 6
Editorial by Series Editors......Page 7
Foreword......Page 9
Setting the Scene......Page 10
Positioning learning......Page 11
Semiosis......Page 16
Exploring lifelong learning -- a guide to what lies ahead......Page 20
Fast capitalism, fast culture......Page 25
Hyper-reality -- hype or reality?......Page 30
You are what you consume......Page 33
What does all this mean for learning?......Page 36
Lifelong Learning As a Semiotic Process......Page 42
The policy discourses of lifelong learning......Page 43
Codes and myths of lifelong learning......Page 49
Conceptualization and realization......Page 54
The Language Games of Lifelong Learning......Page 56
The landscape of the postmodern......Page 57
Postmodern language games......Page 60
The language games of lifelong learning......Page 65
Vocational practices and lifelong learning......Page 69
Without Mastery?......Page 71
Lifelong learning: a postmodern condition of education?......Page 73
Signing Power in Lifelong Learning......Page 76
Power-knowledge and discourses......Page 78
Governmentality......Page 82
Actively seeking subjects......Page 86
Confessional practices and lifelong learning......Page 90
Fashioning lifelong learning......Page 93
Fashioning Political Spaces......Page 96
Research -- an intellectual technology......Page 97
Ordering a European learning society?......Page 103
Meaning-making as a technology of governing......Page 111
Mobilizing the Lifelong Learner......Page 113
Articulating learning through actor-network theory......Page 114
Stabilizing the actor-network......Page 118
Mobilizing lifelong learning......Page 122
Mobilizing lifelong learners......Page 124
Disciplining technologies......Page 128
Connecting Lifelong Learning......Page 132
Communication and knowledge on the Internet......Page 135
Speed, immediacy and connectivity......Page 140
Virtuality......Page 142
Education, learning and the Internet......Page 144
Connected lifelong learning......Page 148
Lifelong Learning as Technique, and…......Page 151
Teaching/learning or learning and teaching?......Page 153
Critiques of learning and teaching......Page 156
What a difference `and' can make…......Page 159
Stammering and….......Page 165
Lines of Flight…......Page 169
Who is naming what?......Page 171
Coming to an ending…........Page 175
Bibliography......Page 176
Index......Page 184