From Formal to Non-Formal

Education, Learning and Knowledge
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-4438-5910-3
Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 285 Seiten

The monograph From Formal to Non–Formal: Education, Learning and Knowledge presents a review of selected aspects of non–formal education and learning, and is written by António Fragoso, Petra Javrh, Polona Kelava, Taja Kramberger, Nives Licen, Marko Radovan, Drago B. Rotar, Klara Skubic Ermenc, Tadej Vidmar, Igor Ž. Žagar, Tihomir Žiljak and Sabina Žnidaršic Žagar. These authors are all anthropologists, sociologists, philosophers, political scientists, education scientists and historians of education. As such, the subject covered is a broad one and reaches into fields that at first glance appear to be very distant from each other. It is precisely this diversity of approaches that offers the best promise of new findings regarding non–formal learning, education and knowledge and that represents a fruitful basis for further reflection on these topics. The monograph thus offers answers to some starting points for reflection on the increasingly varied dimensions and possibilities of formal, non–formal and informal knowledge and learning.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Žagar, Igor Ž.

Kelava, Polona

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Wissenssoziologie, Wissenschaftssoziologie, Techniksoziologie

Über Autor(innen)

Igor Ž. Žagar studied philosophy, sociology, and linguistics in Ljubljana, Paris, and Antwerp. He received his doctoral degree in Sociology of Culture from the University of Ljubljana. He is a Professor of Rhetoric and Argumentation at the University of Primorska, and a Senior Research Fellow and Head of the Centre for Discourse Studies at the Educational Research Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia. He has lectured in Belgium, the United States, Italy, China, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Spain, Russia, Romania, Poland and France. His interests lie in pragmatics (speech act theory, (critical) discourse analysis), philosophy of language, argumentation, and rhetoric. He is the author/co–author and editor/co–editor of twelve books and more than a hundred articles.

Polona Kelava is a Research Assistant in the Centre for Evaluation Studies at the Educational Research Institute and a Teaching Assistant at the Faculty of Education, University of Maribor. Her main research areas are adult education and vocational education and training. In her research, she deals mainly with the recognition of non–formal and informal learning and social inclusion based on educational attainment. She is the author of scholarly and other journal articles in these fields, and is also the co–author of a monograph.