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Subjects:

Adult education -- Congresses.
Continuing education -- Congresses.

Contents:

Introduction : tangled up in learning / Richard Edwards, Jim Gallacher and Susan Whittaker
Theory, methods, concepts
Informal learning : the challenge for research / Veronica McGivney
Theorizing pedagogy within social action contexts : a case study of a South African trade union / Linda Cooper
Inside out of experiential learning : fluid bodies, co-emergent minds / Tara Fenwick
European policies on "non-formal" learning : a genealogical review / Helen Colley, Phil Hodkinson and Janice Malcolm
Learning processes
Combining work and learning : the disturbing challenge of practice / David Boud
Pedagogic learning in the pedagogic workplace / Janice Malcolm and Miriam Zukas
Recognition of tacit skills and knowledge in work re-entry : modelling of learning processes and outcomes / Natasha Kersh and Karen Evans
Learning in non-formal settings and the development of 'really useful' knowledge / Lyn Tett
Knowledge and learning in social movements : issues and opportunities for adult community education / Jim Crowther
Learning outcomes
Learning in action : lessons from poor women in the South / Salma Ismail
Re-reading the texts of RPL : what recontextualizing principles are coded into the selection of curriculum resources? / Judy Harris
Learning in the new work order / Jean Searle
Lifelong learning reaching regions : where other learning doesn't reach / Kate Sankey and Mike Osborne
Researching learning outside the academy : emerging themes / Jim Gallacher, Richard Edwards and Susan Whittaker.

Notes:

Based on material presented at the 2nd international conference on lifelong learning held at the Centre for Research in Lifelong Learning in UK.
Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contributor:

Edwards, Richard, 1956 July 2-
Gallacher, Jim, 1946-
Whittaker, Susan.

ISBN:

0415365856 (hardback : alk. paper)
0203018389 (ebook)

OCLC:

61821805

Publisher Number:

9780415365857 (hardback)
9780203018385 (ebook)