Learning outside academy : international research perspective on lifelong learning

This book weaves together different strands of research in the area of lifelong learning that concentrates particularly on learning in alternative settings and ways, such experiential learning and informal and community learning. Drawing upon international research, the book examines how these strands of research can contribute to each other.

The contributions to this book are based on material presented at a conference at the Centre for Research in Lifelong Learning, UK, and they focus on research into key issues of policy and practice in lifelong learning. Establishing a wider framework for debate about the meaning and significance of lifelong learning, this timely and thought-provoking book provides practitioners in the field with a relevant and current discussion on some very important ideas about non-formal education.

Richard Edwards and Jim Gallacher and Susan WhittakerVeronica McgivneyLinda CooperTara FenwickHelen Colley and Phil Hodkinson and Janice MalcolmDavid BoudJanice Malcolm and Miriam ZukasNatasha Kersh and Karen EvansLyn TettJim CrowtherSalma IsmailJudy HarrisJean SearleKate Sankey and Mike OsborneJim Gallacher and Richard Edwards and Susan Whittaker

List of figures	p. vii
List of contributors	p. ix
Introduction: tangled up in learning	p. 1
Part I Theory, methods, concepts	p. 9
1 Informal learning: the challenge for research	p. 11
2 Theorizing pedagogy within social action contexts: a case study of a South African trade union	p. 24
3 Inside out of experiential learning: fluid bodies, co-emergent minds	p. 42
4 European policies on 'non-formal' learning: a genealogical review	p. 56
Part II Learning processes	p. 75
5 Combining work and learning: the disturbing challenge of practice	p. 77
6 Pedagogic learning in the pedagogic workplace	p. 90
7 Recognition of tacit skills and knowledge in work re-entry: modelling of learning processes and outcomes	p. 103
8 Learning in non-formal settings and the development of 'really useful' knowledge	p. 120
9 Knowledge and learning in social movements: issues and opportunities for adult community education	p. 133
Part III Learning outcomes	p. 149
10 Learning in action: lessons from poor women in the South	p. 151
11 Re-reading the texts of RPL: what recontextualizing principles are coded into the selection of curriculum resources?	p. 169
12 Learning in the new work order	p. 183
13 Lifelong learning reaching regions: where other learning doesn't reach	p. 202
14 Researching learning outside the academy: emerging themes	p. 224
Index	p. 231

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