Download or read book Resources in Education written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Open and Distance Learning in the Developing World written by Hilary Perraton and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This revised and updated edition of Open and Distance Learning in the Developing World sets the expansion of distance education in the context of general educational change and explores its use for basic and non-formal education, schooling, teacher training and higher education. Engaging with a range of topics, this comprehensive overview includes new material on: non-formal education: mass-communication approaches to education about HIV/AIDS and recent literacy work in India, South Africa, and Zambia schooling: new research projects in open schooling in Asia and subsaharan Africa, and interactive radio instruction in South Africa the impact of new technology and globalisation: learning delivered through the internet and mobile learning the political economy: international agencies, the role of private sector, and funding. With its critical appraisal of the facts and examination of data about effectiveness, this book provides answers to problems and poses key questions for the consideration of policy makers, educational practitioners and all professionals involved in implementing and delivering sustainable open and distance learning.
Download or read book A Training Guide for Mentors written by Jay Smink and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Key Concepts in Adult Education and Training written by Malcolm Tight and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As adults, we are all continually involved in learning, with increasing numbers of us engaged in more formalized forms of learning; that is, in education or training. All those involved in the broad field of adult education and training will come into contact with many specialist ideas or concepts. It is often assumed of students that they already have a general understanding of these concepts, their meanings, applicability and inter-relationships. This is not always the case. This book examines in detail over forty of these key concepts, ranging from community education and experiential learning to competence and access. It presents a clear, analytical discussion in jargon-free language. It is, therefore, indispensable to all students and practitioners of adult education and training.
Download or read book The Pursuit of Knowledge Under Difficulties written by and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1995-12 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first history of nontraditional education in America covers the span from Benjamin Franklin's Junto to community colleges. It aims to unravel the knotted connections between education and society by focusing on the voluntary pursuit of knowledge by those who were both older and more likely to be gainfully employed than the school-age population.
Download or read book National Longitudinal Surveys written by Marilyn Manser and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Necessity of Informal Learning written by Coffield, Frank and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2000-01-12 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report constitutes an exploratory study of the submerged mass of learning which takes place informally and implicitly. It considers the importance of informal lerning in the formation of knowledge and skills and policies to widen participation.
Download or read book Speaking Truth to Power written by Coffield, Frank and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 1999-07-07 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this collection of essays researchers discuss the implications of their findings for policy. They make recommendations for policy makers and those concerned to improve the quality of learning at work.
Download or read book Learning at the Back Door written by Charles A. Wedemeyer and published by IAP. This book was released on 2010-06-01 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wedemeyer stresses that learning is a natural idiosyncratic, and continually renewable human trait and survival resource. It is not dependent upon teaching, schooling, or special environments, although-properly used-these resources enhance learning. There is a powerful subculture of independent learners who are responsible for much of the real progress that has been made in most areas on endeavor. This book attempts to explain this kind of learning and relate it to schooling, suggesting ways in which all learning-whether traditional or non-traditional-can be encouraged and improved through new kinds of educational institutions and processes.
Download or read book Globalization Adult Education and Training written by Shirley Walters and published by Zed Books. This book was released on 1997-06 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprises 25 papers which consider how adult education and training are being shaped by global economic, political, cultural and social changes, and how practitioners are responding to the new challenges. Examines the concept of lifelong learning. Provides examples of education and training strategies in different countries, focusing on the Republic of South Africa.
Download or read book European Views of Self directed Learning written by Gerald A. Straka and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following an Introduction by editor Gerald A. Straka that posits various definitions of self-directed learning and discusses the views of the various authors in the text, this book consists of nine papers addressing issues and conceptions of self-directed learning in Europe. The following are included: "Self-Directed Learning in Continuing Education--A Report from Switzerland" (Christoph Metzger); "Self (-Directed) Learning in France" (Philippe Carre); "Self-Learning Activities in the French Community of Belgium" (Brigitte Denis); "Self-Directed Learning in the Netherlands" (Marcel R. van der Klink, Wim J. Nijhof); "Self-Directed Learning among Adults in the United Kingdom" (Keith Percy); "Self-Directed Learning in Portugal" (Maria Joao Malheiro Filgueiras); "Learning, Working and Social Practices: History and Future Trends in Italy" (Cristina Zucchermaglio); "Self-Directed Learning in Greece" (Nicholas Iliadis); and "Self-Directed Learning in Germany: From Instruction to Learning in the Process of Work" (Gerald A. Straka). (Each paper contains references.) (KC)
Download or read book Lifelines written by Sharan B. Merriam and published by Jossey-Bass. This book was released on 1991-09 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book reveals the common patterns adults experience in their careers, relationships, and development. The authors show how, by gaining an understanding of these patterns in their own lives, adults can find new meaning in their existence, work through problems, and explore opportunities for growth.
Download or read book Making a Difference written by Werner Mauch and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book highlights examples of innovative educational practices in the field of organized adult learning. Fifteen chapters present outcomes of collective research in the Innovations in Nonformal and Adult Education (INNAE) project. "Common Learning--Collective Research: Innovating Adult Education" (Werner Mauch, Uta Papen) describes the methodology and identifies five transversal or common issues that appeared in the case studies. Part II contains the case studies prepared by INNAE participants: "Innovating for Change: Women's Education for Empowerment: Analysis of the Mahila Samakhya Program in Banda District"; "Graduate Resource Advancement (GREAT): Non-Formal Exposure of Youth to Rural Development" (S.B. Ekanayake); "Question de Competences--The Competence Issue: Tool for Women" (Rachel Belisle); "And the Hammock Lingers On: Whither Theater-for-Development" (Hansel Ndumbe Eyoh); "The Community Health Workers' School of the Union of Palestinian Medical Relief Committees" (Jihad Mash'al); "Kenyan Experience on Training Adult Education Teachers through Distance Education" (Khalfan A. Mazrui); "CAFAM's [Caja de Compensacion Familiar--Family Subsidy Fund] Continuing Adult Education Program (CAFAED): A Human Development Project" (Maria Auxiliadora Consuegra G.); "'We Got Together...And?': A Project for Couples" (Manuel Bastias Urra, B. Rosa Saavedra Diaz); and "The Fisherfolk Environmental Education Project: Timely Innovation in Popular Environmental Education Philippines" (M. Linnea Villarosa-Tanchuling). Each chapter in Part III addresses one transversal issue: "Change and Integration" (S.B. Ekanayake, Werner Mauch, Catherine Alum Odora-Hoppers); "Participation and Partnership, Sustainability and Transferability" (Rachel Belisle, Dipta Bhos, Ingrid Jung); "Needs Issue" (Maria Consuegra, Khalfan Mazrui, Josef Muller); "Conversation on Empowerment" (Rosa Saavedra, Miryam Zuniga, Maria Linnea Villarosa-Tanchuling, Uta Papen); and "In the Guise of a Conclusion: New Ways of Learning" (Dipta Bhog, Uta Papen). (YLB)
Download or read book Learning in Social Action written by Griff Foley and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book seeks to increase our understanding of those non-educational contexts and informal circumstances in which people learn. Adult educators, Professor Foley argues, ought not to neglect the importance of the incidental learning which can take place, in particular, when people become involved in voluntary organisations, social struggles, and political activity of every kind. In developing the argument that such involvement can provide extraordinarily powerful learning opportunities, he uses case studies from the United States of America, Australia as well as Third World countries - Brazil and Zimbabwe - and embracing very diverse environmental, women's, worker and political struggles. He is particularly interested in how involvement in social action can help people to unlearn dominant, oppressive ideologies and discourses and learn instead oppositional, liberatory ones, even if such processes of emancipatory learning are inevitably complex and contradictory. He relates these processes of informal learning in contested contexts to current thinking in adult education and points the way to a somewhat different, and more radical, agenda in adult education theory and practice. For adult educators, community workers and others working with socially engaged citizens, the insights and lessons of this book ought to be especially useful as they try to develop their own practice in such contexts.
Download or read book A History of Modern British Adult Education written by Roger Fieldhouse and published by Niace. This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this book is: to set the historical development of British adult education in its wider policy and ideological context; to examine its various forms and formulations; and to identify what purpose or purposes it has served. The 16 chapters are as follows: "Historical and Political Context" (Roger Fieldhouse); "The Nineteenth Century" (Roger Fieldhouse); "An Overview of British Adult Education in the Twentieth Century" (Roger Fieldhouse); "The Local Education Authorities and Adult Education" (Roger Fieldhouse); "Community Education: The Dialectics of Development" (Ian Martin); "Literacy and Adult Basic Education" (Mary Hamilton); "The Workers' Educational Association" (Roger Fieldhouse); "University Adult Education" (Roger Fieldhouse); "Residential Colleges and Non-Residential Settlements and Centres" (Walter Drews, Roger Fieldhouse); "Independent Working Class Education and Trade Union Education and Training" (John McIlroy); "The Open University" (Naomi Sargant); "Adult Education Auxiliaries and Informal Learning" (Peter Baynes, Harold Marks); "Learning for Work: Vocational Education and Training" (John Field); "Broadcasting and Adult Education" (Brian Groombridge); "Women and Adult Education" (Roseanne Benn); and "British Adult Education: Past, Present, and Future" (Roger Fieldhouse). The book contains 1,035 references, notes on contributors, and an index. (YLB)
Download or read book Using Informal Education written by Tony Jeffs and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years there has been a growing interest in the use of informal education in welfare and schooling. This has been reflected in major developments in practice. Using Informal Education is an exploraton of these changes, and aims to provide an insight into practice.
