Download or read book New Technologies written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Researching Widening Access to Lifelong Learning written by Beth Crossan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-07-15 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This authoritative volume is a truly international contribution to the worldwide debate on how best to widen access to lifelong learning. The first section of the book comprises research studies from around the world, reflecting the diversity of contexts in which widening access is researched and considers issues central to the access debate, including different understandings of the concept of access, organisational and structural change, curriculum development, entry policies, performance and retention and labour market outcomes. The second section illustrates diverse and innovative methodological approaches that have been employed by researchers in the field, and considers the range of approaches available. Given the growing concern around the world on the need to combat social exclusion and to improve economic circumstances through access to lifelong learning, this book acts as a unique reference point informing the ongoing debate, exploring the relationships between research, policy and practice.
Download or read book Widening Participation in Lifelong Learning written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Council for Industry and Higher Education commissioned a working group called the Widening Participation Group to consider how to make postcompulsory education more accessible to those individuals in the United Kingdom who currently have limited or no exposure to such learning. The group issued a progress report recommending specific actions that might be taken by the following groups: government and its agencies, employers and employer organizations, and higher and further education institutions. Among the actions recommended were the following: give high priority to measures widening participation of those in lower social groups; consider moving to a credit-based funding approach and introducing income-contingent loans; increase pupils' and parents' awareness of the benefits of further and higher education; encourage local learning initiatives; support the introduction of individual learning account; provide student support facilities (child care, transportation, information technology support); and make a range of interim awards and qualifications more widely available. (Appended are the mission of the Widening Participation Group, and a list of group members. Contains 11 references.) (MN)
Download or read book Widening Participation in Lifelong Learning written by Council for Industry and Higher Education, London (GB) and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lifelong Learning Participation and Equity written by Judith Chapman and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-05-23 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In many countries, schools, universities and other traditional learning institutions are not providing for the educational needs of all members of the community. Many communities, particularly in regional, rural and disadvantaged areas, can offer only limited educational options. This book addresses the challenge of identifying effective ways of accommodating the learning needs of all people and in so doing achieving the goals of lifelong learning for all.
Download or read book Advancing Theory and Research in Widening Participation written by Ellen Boeren and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-10-23 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Issues of access, social exclusion and widening participation dominate educational policy agendas and are a shared global challenge. Participation in higher education and adult lifelong learning activities can be a life-changing experience that opens up new opportunities. However, access remains unequal. People from lower socio-economic backgrounds, those living in the most deprived areas and people from minority ethnic groups are underrepresented. In this book, we focus on how we can move the field of widening participation forward, paying specific attention to the theories and methods we can use to better understand and tackle the problem of underrepresented groups in post-compulsory education, and how individuals and institutions can be supported. We argue that in order to make sense of these issues, it is important to engage in both the findings of widening participation research and the theoretical foundations which underpin them. This way, alternative perspectives on the widening participation agenda and emerging research and policy can be explored from alternative perspectives. This book was originally published as a special issue of Studies in Continuing Education.
Download or read book Widening Participation in Post Compulsory Education written by Liz Thomas and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2005-03-01 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Both nationally and internationally there is a drive to increase participation in post-compulsory education. Yet with existing participation rates already high by historical standards, it is not easy to see how this can be done. Now Liz Thomas provides a comprehensive guide. From an analysis of the motives for expansion and the reasons why students enroll--or fail to enroll--through to a critical analysis of existing and innovative schemes, the author highlights good practice and explains ways to develop a strategic approach to widening participation.
Download or read book Lifelong Learning Participation in a Changing Policy Context written by Ellen Boeren and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on the role of individuals, education and training providers and countries' social policy actions, and borrowing insights from psychology, sociology and economics, this book works towards an interdisciplinary theory of adult lifelong learning participation. It explores the fragmented evidence of why adults do or do not participate in adult lifelong learning activities and focuses on the relevance of policy, the social character and expected benefits of lifelong learning participation and discusses the potential implications for policy, practice and research.
Download or read book Higher Education and Lifelong Learners written by Hans Georg Schütze and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited collection explores the varying interpretations of lifelong learning by experts from ten countries.
Download or read book Rethinking Widening Participation in Higher Education written by Alison Fuller and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2011-04-26 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Extending higher education to people from diverse backgrounds and widening participation is a current international priority. This study, based on empirical data, is the first of its kind examining why people choose not to enter higher education
Download or read book Improving Opportunities to Engage in Learning written by Nalita James and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-20 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Improving Opportunities to Engage in Learning investigates the experiences of mature adult learners returning to formal education. The book challenges the policy discourses in which Access to Higher Education survives by suggesting that continuing education is more about determination by students to alter their identities and career opportunities than meeting narrow performative criteria of financial targets. Chapters explore students’ struggles with institutional and social structures in the current political and socio-economic climate, before identifying how the transformation of their learner identities is facilitated in the courses by collaborative cultures and supportive tutors. The book addresses a research gap in knowledge about students’ and tutors’ experiences of Access to Higher Education courses, presenting a broad perspective on the importance and difficulties of such courses through listening to the voices of students and tutors undertaking a variety of Access to HE pathways. The authors argue that despite success on their courses benefiting the national economy as well as students individually, the social and financial costs of continuing education is almost entirely shifted onto students’ shoulders by policymakers. Despite the costs, students can still see Access to HE as a chance to improve their lives, reflecting the neoliberal discourse of personal responsibility and risk embedded in broader national social and policy discourses. Improving Opportunities to Engage in Learning will be of great interest to researchers, academics and postgraduate students in the fields of further and higher education, widening participation, social justice and sociology of education, and education policy and politics.
Download or read book Researching Widening Access to Lifelong Learning written by Michael Osborne and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This authoritative volume is a truly international contribution to the worldwide debate on how best to widen access to lifelong learning. The first section of the book comprises research studies from around the world, reflecting the diversity of contexts in which widening access is researched and considers issues central to the access debate, including different understandings of the concept of access, organisational and structural change, curriculum development, entry policies, performance and retention and labour market outcomes. The second section illustrates diverse and innovative methodological approaches that have been employed by researchers in the field, and considers the range of approaches available. Given the growing concern around the world on the need to combat social exclusion and to improve economic circumstances through access to lifelong learning, this book acts as a unique reference point informing the ongoing debate, exploring the relationships between research, policy and practice.
Download or read book Widening Participation and Lifelong Learning 20 20 written by The Open University and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lifelong Learning written by John Field and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This one volume reference book covers all the major issues in lifelong learning in four sections: Theoretical Perspectives; Curriculum; International Perspectives; and Widening Participation.
Download or read book Accessing Education written by Penny Jane Burke and published by Stylus Publishing, LLC.. This book was released on 2002 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Equality and social justice were the prime objectives of the first access courses. But the government's current lifelong learning policy has shifted the position of access students in ways that often impede their educational opportunities." "This research study draws on the views and experience of academics, access practitioners and, above all, access students themselves. Their accounts reveal how access as currently provided within the dominant discourse can intimidate the students it is meant to serve, reinforcing exclusion and poverty and reproducing unequal power relations." "Dr Burke and her access students show how a collaboratively developed pedagogy for access courses, committed to anti-classist, anti-sexist and antiracist approaches to teaching and learning, would empower students to succeed."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book Improving Learning by Widening Participation in Higher Education written by Miriam David and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-09-18 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a strong and coherent rationale for improving learning for diverse students from a range of backgrounds within higher education.
Download or read book Access Lifelong Learning and Education for All written by Gareth Parry and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-03-23 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines access, lifelong learning and education for all, which have been policy preoccupations in all countries for more than half a century, but have been overlaid and pushed aside by the development of mass higher education. The authors examine what has been achieved, what lessons have been learnt and what still remains to be done, addressing matters of equity, agency, community, mobility and hierarchy.
