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You are currently browsing 1–10 of 66 new and published books in the subject of Lifelong Learning — sorted by publish date from newer books to older books.

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New and Published Books

  1. University Teaching in Focus

    A learning-centred approach

    Edited by Lynne Hunt, Denise Chalmers

    University Teaching in Focus provides a foundational springboard for early career academics preparing to teach in universities. Focusing on four critical areas - teaching, curriculum, students, and quality/leadership - this succinct resource offers university teachers a straightforward approach to...

    Published November 4th 2012 by Routledge

  2. The Confessing Society

    Foucault, Confession and Practices of Lifelong Learning

    By Andreas Fejes, Magnus Dahlstedt

    Today, people are constantly encouraged to verbalise and disclose their "true" inner self to others, whether on TV shows, in newspapers, in family life or together with friends. Such encouragement to disclose the self has proliferated through discourses on lifelong learning through which each...

    Published September 9th 2012 by Routledge

  3. Developing Narrative Theory

    Life Histories and Personal Representation

    By Ivor F. Goodson

    We live in an age of narrative: life stories are a crucial ingredient in what makes us human and, in turn, what kind of human they make us. In recent years, narrative analysis has grown and is used across many areas of research. Interest in this rapidly developing approach now requires the firm...

    Published September 9th 2012 by Routledge

  4. Transnational Migration and Lifelong Learning

    Global Issues and Perspectives

    Edited by Shibao Guo

    Economic globalization, modern transportation, and advanced communication technologies have greatly enhanced the mobility of people across national boundaries. The resulting demographic, social, and cultural changes create new opportunities for development as well as new challenges for lifelong...

    Published August 16th 2012 by Routledge

  5. Knowledge and Innovation

    A Comparative Study of the USA, the UK and Japan

    By Helen Brown

    Series: Routledge Studies in Innovation, Organizations and Technology

    This new book presents case studies from the US, the UK and Japan. Packed full of vignettes from cases studies and subscribing to a socio-cultural approach rather than the often tacit assumption that knowledge and ‘technology transfer’ is a logistical problem, this excellent volume illuminates the...

    Published June 13th 2012 by Routledge

  6. Women, War, Violence and Learning

    Edited by Shahrzad Mojab

    This anthology provides fresh theorization of gendered dimensions of learning, war, and violence, with a view to offering new insights on the impact of violence on women’s learning and well being. The collection is an important contribution to emerging interdisciplinary approaches to the role and...

    Published May 16th 2012 by Routledge

  7. From Adult Education to the Learning Society

    21 Years of the International Journal of Lifelong Education

    By Peter Jarvis

    Series: Education Heritage

    This unique text provides a valuable route map to the development of thinking in adult education and lifelong learning. It includes more than twenty-five seminal articles from the first two decades of the International Journal of Lifelong Education, written by leading authors in the field from the...

    Published December 14th 2011 by Routledge

  8. Inquiry into the Future of Lifelong Learning in the UK

    An International Analysis

    Edited by Peter Jarvis

    This volume offers a comprehensive international response to the National Institute of Adult Continuing Education (NIACE)’s inquiry into the future of lifelong learning in the UK. The book focuses upon some of the main themes of the inquiry, and analyses them from very broad perspectives undertaken...

    Published November 16th 2011 by Routledge

  9. Emerging Approaches to Educational Research

    Tracing the Socio-Material

    By Tara Fenwick, Richard Edwards, Peter Sawchuk

    The last fifteen years have seen much conceptual and methodological innovation in research on education and learning across the lifecourse, bringing both fresh insights and new dilemmas. This innovation was initially fuelled by the growing influence of conceptual framings often named as either...

    Published July 14th 2011 by Routledge

  10. Theories of Learning for the Workplace

    Building blocks for training and professional development programs

    By Filip Dochy, David Gijbels, Mien Segers, Piet Van den Bossche

    Series: Routledge Psychology in Education

    Workplace and professional learning, lifelong learning, adult learning, learning in different contexts have become of more and more interest and now dominate all aspects of 21st century life. Learning is no longer about ‘storing and recall’ but ‘development and flow’. Theories of Learning in the...

    Published June 13th 2011 by Routledge