Trentham Books Limited Lifelong Learning and the New Educational Order: second revised edition

Lifelong Learning and the New Educational Order: second revised edition

Author: John Field

ISBN: 9781858563466

Price: £16.99 / €25.50

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210 pages
234mm x 156mm
ISBN-10: 1 85856 346 1
ISBN-13: 978 1 85856 346 6
February 2006 - Reprinted 2008

Lifelong learning remains an explosive policy issue. In Britain and elsewhere, governments are actively encouraging citizens to learn and to apply their learning across their lifespan. Yet governments often seem uncertain over the best means of achieving this desirable goal. John Field's book explores the background to this sudden rise of interest among policy-makers, maps existing patterns of participation, evaluates the measures being developed to promote lifelong learning, and assesses the prospects of achieving a viable learning society.

This fully revised and updated edition takes account of recent research and policy. It will be essential reading for academics with a scholarly interest in adult learning, as well as for teachers, managers and others who want to understand one of the most critical and fast-moving areas of modern educational policy.

Reviews

...an authoritative and compelling account (that)provides a broad vista in a few pages... fluent and highly accessible - Higher Education Review

... an important and original study . . . a book which will prove stimulating from beginning to end for all those with an interest in lifelong learning - Journal of Philosophy of Education

... comprehensive, readable and authoritative . . . a timely and informative book that should fuel further relevant debate, discussion and research - Educational Management and Administration

post formal-education learning is worth doing, read this book. - British Journal of Educational Technology

'Field's book is a must read for those concerned with lifelong learning as holistic, democratic, ethical and just practice'.- Studies in the Education of Adults

'(my) points go to show just how thought-provoking Field's book is and reiterate one of his opening aims - to encourage democratic dialogue about what sort of learning society we have got, and should have.' - International Journal of Lifelong Education.

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Lifelong Learning and the New Educational Order: second revised edition

Price: £16.99 / €25.50

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