Concepts and Practice of Lifelong Learning

It is difficult to overstate the significance of lifelong learning in contemporary society. The Concepts and Practices of Lifelong Learning gives a comprehensive, research-informed and multi-disciplinary introduction to issues in this field across a variety of educational settings and practices. In doing so, the authors present critical discussions within an international context. Governmental, institutional and individual commitments to lifelong learning have brought changes in the meaning and significance of learning across the life course and new teaching and learning practices, as well as significant institutional change. The vision of the learning society that is unfolding is also highly contested. The Concepts and Practices of Lifelong Learning explores some of these contestations, meanings, practices and institutional changes. Chapters cover: the various conceptions of lifelong learning; the factors that impinge on learning through the life course; the social and the economic rationale for lifelong learning; the varied sites of lifelong learning, from the micro to macro (from the home to the region to the virtual); turbulence and continuing transition in personal and work roles, and against the background of future technological development. This timely overview will be relevant to education and training professionals in all education sectors, education studies students and the general reader. Brenda Morgan-Klein is Senior Lecturer in Education at the University of Stirling, UK. Michael Osborne is Professor of Lifelong Learning at the University of Stirling, UK.Morgan-Klein, Brenda is the author of 'Concepts and Practice of Lifelong Learning' with ISBN 9780415428613 and ISBN 0415428610.