Creating a Learning Society?

Learning Careers and Policies for Lifelong Learning
1. Auflage 2002
ISBN: 978-1-86134-286-7
Verlag: Bristol University Press

Buch, Englisch, 208 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 318 g

Lifelong learning is a key government strategy - both in the UK and internationally - to promote economic growth and combat social exclusion. This book presents a highly innovative study of participation in lifelong learning and the problems which need to be overcome if lifelong learning policies are to be successful. It:

provides a systematic analysis, based on innovative empirical research, of the social and economic realities which actually determine patterns of participation in lifelong learning;
shows what the factors are that shape people's participation, or their decision not to participate;
offers new insights into the processes of lifelong learning, which have important implications for the development of more effective policies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gorard, Stephen

Rees, Gareth

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Teildisziplinen der Pädagogik Erwachsenenbildung, lebenslanges Lernen
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Bildungssystem Bildungspolitik, Bildungsreform

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents: Contemporary policies for a learning society; Lifelong learning trajectories; History, place and the learning society: the case of South Wales; Patterns of individual participation in adult learning; Families and the formation of learner identities; Lifelong learning trajectories and the two dimensions of change over time. The role of informal learning with Ralph Fevre; The learning society and the economic imperative; The impact of policies to widen participation with Neil Selwyn; The prospects for a learning society.

Über Autor(innen)

Gorard, Stephen
Stephen Gorard is Professor of Education and Public Policy at Durham University. He is a member of the UK DfE Associate Pool, the British Academy grants panel, the ESRC commissioning panel for Strategic Networks, and Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. He regularly gives advice to governments and other policy-makers, and is a widely read and cited methodologist, involved in international and regional capacity-building activities, and used as an adviser on the design of rigorous evaluations by central and local governments, NGOs and charities.

Gareth Rees is a Professor and the Deputy Director in the Cardiff University School of Social Sciences. Stephen Gorard is a Reader in the Cardiff University School of Social Sciences. Ralph Fevre is a Professor in the Cardiff University School of Social Sciences. John Furlong is a Professor in the Cardiff University School of Social Sciences.