International handbook of lifelong learning /
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| Imprint: | Dordrecht [Netherlands] ; Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, c2001. |
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| Description: | 2 v. (lviii, 820 p.) : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Kluwer international handbooks of education ; v. 6 |
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| Format: | E-Resource Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4465469 |
Table of Contents:
- Part 1.
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction and Overview
- List of Contributors
- Section 1. Lifelong Learning: Conceptual, Philosophical And Values Issues
- 1.1. Towards a Philosophy of Lifelong Learning
- 1.2. Locating Lifelong Learning and Education in Contemporary Currents of Thought and Culture
- 1.3. Lifelong Learning and Personal Fulfillment
- 1.4. Political Inclusion, Democratic Empowerment and Lifelong Learning
- 1.5. Lifelong Learning and the Contribution of Informal Learning
- 1.6. Lifelong Learning, Changing Economies and the World of Work
- 1.7. From Adult Education to Lifelong Learning
- 1.8. Caring for the Adult Self
- 1.9. Lifelong Learning for a Learning Democracy
- 1.10. Lifelong Education: Some Deweyan Themes
- 1.11. Lifelong Learning In the Postmodern
- 1.12. Lifelong Learning: Small Adjustment or Paradigm Shift?
- Section 2. The Policy Challenge
- 2.1. Lifelong Learning Policies in Low Development Contexts: An African Perspective
- 2.2. Lifelong Learning and Developing Society
- 2.3. Lifelong Learning Policies in Transition Countries
- 2.4. Trends in and Objectives of Adult Higher Education in China
- 2.5. Lifelong Learning and the Leisure-Oriented Society: The Development and Challenges in the Far East
- 2.6. The Swedish Adult Education Initiative: From Recurrent Education to Lifelong Learning
- 2.7. Towards New Lifelong Learning Contracts in Sweden
- 2.8. How to Make Lifelong Learning a Reality: Implications for the Planning of Educational Provision in Australia
- 2.9. Lifelong Learning: a Monitoring Framework and Trends in Participation
- Part 2.
- Section 3. Structures and Programs in Lifelong Learning
- 3.1. Schools and the Learning Community: Laying the Basis for Learning Across the Lifespan
- 3.2. Integrity, Completeness and Comprehensiveness of the Learning Environment: Meeting the Basic Learning Needs of All Throughout Life
- 3.3. Innovative Teachers: Promoting Lifelong Learning for All
- 3.4. Lifelong Learning and Tertiary Education: The Learning University Revisited
- 3.5. Universities as Centres for Lifelong Learning: Opportunities and Threats at the Institutional Level
- 3.6. Islands and Bridges: Lifelong Learning and Complex Systems of Higher Education in Canada
- 3.7. The Impact of the Dearing Report on UK Higher Education
- 3.8. Lifelong Learning and Technical and Further Education
- 3.9. Learning Communities for a Learning Century
- 3.10. Lifelong Learning and the Learning Organization
- Section 4. The Practice: Formal, Informal and Non-formal Initiatives in Learning Across the Lifespan
- 4.1. Community Colleges and Lifelong Learning: Canadian Experiences
- 4.2. From Literacy to Lifelong Learning in Tanzania
- 4.3. Lifelong Learning and the Private Sector
- 4.4. Recent Trends in the Practice of Lifelong Learning and Adult Education in Russia
- 4.5. Community Empowerment Through Lifelong Community Learning in Developing Countries
- 4.6. Lifelong Learning, the Individual and Community Self-help
- 4.7. New Lives for Old: Lifelong Learning Among the Indigenous Peoples of Taiwan and Canada
- 4.8. Promoting Lifelong Learning in Developing Countries: The Institutional Environment
- 4.9. Learning in the Third Age
- Index of Names
- Index of Subjects