Learning for Life: The Foundations of Lifelong Learning
"The foundations of lifelong learning are laid during the school years." David H. Hargreaves Working within the spirit of David Blunkett's visionary foreword to The learning age: A new renaissance for Britain, David H. Hargreaves' radical analysis challenges the myth that lifelong learning can or should be separated - in any sense - from school education.
This book helps teachers to visualize teaching and learning holistically, linking the knowledge, skills, and dispositions that students need to know, do, and feel, to achieve in school and become lifelong learners.
The publication of Learning Power in Practice represents an important stage in the development of the Effective Lifelong
Learning Inventory (ELLI) project. ELLI has been ‘work in progress’ within the University of Bristol’s Graduate School of Education for the past five years. Like most of the projects funded by the Lifelong Learning Foundation (LLF), it combines a robust scientific strand with a strongly practical orientation, the aim being to develop a range of tools for tracking, evaluating and recording people’s development as real-life learners.
This resource reviews the key elements of lifelong learning (Chapter 2), describes its evolution (Chapter 3), describes the electronic and global dimensions (Chapters 4 and 5) and provides the busy executive with all they need to know about lifelong learning and how to make it work for themselves and their organization.
This book is an accessible and jargon-free guide to the key concepts used in adult education and training. The author examines in detail forty-five of these concepts, ranging from core concepts such as education and development, to more specialist concepts like social capital and social inclusion. This new edition has been fully revised and updated in view of the recent surge of interest in concepts such as lifelong education and the learning society.
