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The Routledge International Handbook of Learning
β Scribed by Peter Jarvis, Mary Watts
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Year
- 2011
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- English
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β¦ Synopsis
As our understanding of learning focuses on the whole person rather than individual aspects of learning, so the process of learning is beginning to be studied from a wide variety of perspectives and disciplines. This handbook presents a comprehensive overview of the contemporary research into learning: it brings together a diverse range of speciali
β¦ Table of Contents
Front Cover
The Routledge International Handbook of Learning
Copyright Page
Contents
List of illustrations
List of contributors
Preface
Introduction: Human learning: Peter Jarvis
Part 1: Learning and the person
1. Learning and the senses: Paul Martin and Viv Martin
2. Learning and cognition: Knud Illeris
3. Learning a role: becoming a nurse: Michelle Camilleri
4. Self-constructed activity, work analysis, and occupational training: an approach to
learning objects for adults: Marc Durand
5. Emotional intelligence: Betty Rudd
6. Language and learning: Bernard Camilleri
7. Gender and learning: feminist perspectives: Julia Preece
8. Learning and identity: Lyn Tett
9. Thinking styles in student learning and development: Li-fang Zhang
10. Non-learning: Peter Jarvis
Part 2: Learning across the lifespan
11. Learning in early childhood: Christine Stephen
12. Crossing boundaries: harnessing funds of knowledge in dialogic inquiry across formal
and informal learning environments: Kristiina Kumpulainen and Lasse Lipponen
13. Young people and learning: Rachel Brooks
14. Adult learning: andragogy versus pedagogy or from pedagogy to andragogy: Peter Jarvis
15. Exploring learning in midlife: Jo-Anne H. Willment
16. The older adult in education: Mary Alice Wolf
17. Lifelong learning in long-term care settings: Alexandra Withnall
18. The biographical approach to lifelong learning: Peter Alheit
19. Learning from our lives: John Field
20. Psychological development: Mark Tennant
21. Transformative learning: Patricia Cranton and Edward W. Taylor
Part 3: Learning sites
22. Informal learning: everyday living: Paul Hager
23. Self-directed learning: Katarina PopoviΔ
24. Learning at the site of work: Stephen Billett
25. Organisational learning wonβt be turned off: Bente Elkjaer
26. E-learning (m-learning): Susannah Quinsee
27. Sleep-dependent learning: Daan R. van der Veen and Simon N. Archer
28. Learning and violence: Shahrzad Mojab and Bethany J. Osborne
29. An aesthetic education: an education in aesthetics in the setting of a Danish folk high school through the theatrical arts: Lars Ilum
Part 4: Learning and disability
30. Learning, sensory impairment, and physical disability: Joanna Beazley Richards
31. Autism spectrum conditions and learning: Mary Watts
32. Reading disability: Julian G. Elliott and Elena L. Grigorenko
33. On becoming a person in society: the person with dementia: Kay de Vries
Part 5: Learning across the disciplines: human and social sciences
34. Human-centric learning and post-human experimentation: Richard Edwards
35. Piagetβs constructivism and adult learning: Etienne Bourgeois
36. Psychoanalytic perspectives on learning and the subject called the learner: Linden West
37. Sociology and learning: Martin Dyke and Ian Bryant
38. Anthropology and learning: Peggy Froerer
39. Learning in a complex world: Mark Olssen
40. Perspectives on geography and learning: Johanna L. Waters
41. Learning as a microhistorical process: Christina Toren
42. Evolution: Ian Abrahams and Michael Reiss
43. The brain and learning: John Stein
44. Cognitive neurophysiology: promoting neuroergonomics of learning: Kiti MΓΌller and Anu Holm
45. Pharmacology and learning: Roberta Stasyk
Part 6: Learning and religious and meaning systems
46. Buddhist theory of education: Caroline Brazier and David Brazier
47. Christianity: Jeff Astley
48. Confucian learning: learning to become fully human: Qi Sun
49. Aspects of learning in Hindu philosophy: Prem Kumar
50. Learning within the context of faith and the intellect: a thinking Islam: Naznin Hirji
51. Jewish ways of learning: Gabriela Ruppin-Shand and Michael Shire
Part 7: Geographic cultural systems: broader perspectives
52. Remodeling learning on an African cultural heritage of Ubuntu: Rebecca Nthogo Lekoko and Oitshepile MmaB Modise
53. Indian culture and learning: Sunil Behari Mohanty
54. The challenges of adult learning in Latin America: from literacy to lifelong learning: Timothy Ireland
Index
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