The pedagogy of lifelong learning : understanding effective teaching and learning in diverse contexts

Osborne, Michael, 1954- (Added Author). Houston, M. (Muir) (Added Author). Toman, Nuala, 1975- (Added Author).

Summary: This volume is a collection of articles on international research covering three key areas: learning careers and identities, pedagogy and learning cultures, and learning beyond institutions.

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ISBN: 9780415424943 (hardback)
ISBN: 9780415424950 (pbk.)
Physical Description: print
xiii, 232 p.
Publisher: New York, NY : Routledge, 2007.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographic references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

1. Introduction -- 2. Poor relations: exploring discipline, research and pedagogy in academic identity -- 3. To those that have shall be given? Differing expectaions of support among dyslexic students -- 4. Making meaning in workplace settings -- 5. Older adults' learning patterns: trajectories and changing identities -- 6. Talking about my learning generation: the role of historical time and generational time over the life course -- 7. Researching literacy for learning in the vocational curriculum -- 8. Exploring learning in a small rural community -- 9. Fire wall: words and action in vocational training -- 10. Reality bites: bringing the 'real' world of work into educational classrooms -- 11. The effects of social and organisational mediation on the student learning experience: an introduction to the SOMUL project -- 12. What are the implications of an uncertain future for pedagogy, curriculum and qualifications? -- 13. Lifelong learning on individual accounts: the impact of individual learning accounts on workers of low educational levels -- 14. Essential skills training in Canada for under-literate workers: 'vocational representations' of sectoral committee and training context actors -- 15. Adult education, museums and critique: towards new methods of researching the field -- Blogs and wikis as disruptive technologies: is it time for a new pedagogy? -- The pedagogy of confession: exploring identity and the online self -- 18. Concluding remarks.