Lifelong learning has developed enormously as a distinct area of study within education in recent years not least because numerous governments and educational strategists have become very vocal supporters of new ways of learning throughout all stages of life. This guide to the topic brings together new writing from some of the leading thinkers in the field to offer a broad ranging and detailed snapshot of the position to date. The book provides a critical summary of current developments in understanding adult learning and the social context in which they are located. This provides a background for the framing of issues and the problems that emerge in institutional and non-formal contexts of lifelong learning. Students undertaking courses of study in this area as well as a wide range of undergraduate and postgraduate students in a variety of professional areas will find the material essential reading.

Product Description: The self-taught American photographer and filmmaker, Peter Sutherland, is known for his insider glimpses into a host of normally cloistered contemporary subcultures like bike messengers, amateur soccer players and graffiti artists--all members of the global, ever-growing, do-it-yourself generation...read more

Product Description: By the time Germany and Costa Rica kicked off the 2006 World Cup in Munich, hundreds of thousands of soccer fans from around the globe had descended on the host nation to cheer on their national sides and soak up the atmosphere. Among them were a group of New York City soccer players celebrating an anniversary of sorts...read more

Product Description: With an eye for style, Sutherland captures all of the gritty glory and glamour of the graffiti world and its warriors. Collected for the first time in Autograf: New York City’s Graffiti Writers, Sutherland presents a never-before-seen chronicle of the people and places that populate New York’s famed graf scene...read more

Product Description: This reader examines various approaches to learning and learning strategies including psychological, sociological and cross-cultural. The international team of contributors cover topics including formal learning, age differences in adult learning, Piagets' stage theory and experiential learning...read more

Product Description: Friedrich Waismann was born in Vienna in 1896 and lived there until the time of the Anschluss in 1938. From then until his death in 1959 he lived in England; this, apart from a brief period at Cambridge early on, was almost wholly at Oxford, \, Vhere he held the posts, first, or reader in the philosophy of mathematics and then of reader in the philosophy of science...read more