Recovering Informal Learning Wisdom, Judgement and Community
For too long, theories and practices of learning have been dominated by the requirements of formal learning. Quite simply this book seeks to persuade readers through philosophical argument and empirically grounded examples that the balance should be shift
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Lifelong Learning Book Series VOLUME 7 Series Editors David N. Aspin, Em, Faculty of Education, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia Judith D. Chapman, Centre of Lifelong Learning, Australian Catholic University, Melbourne, Australia Editorial Board William L. Boyd, Department of Education Policy Studies, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA Karen Evans, Institute of Education, University of London, UK Malcolm Skilbeck, Drysdale, Victoria, Australia Yukiko Sawano, Department for Lifelong Learning Policies, National Institute for Educational Policy Research (NIER), Tokyo, Japan Kaoru Okamoto, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Government of Japan, Tokyo, Japan Denis W. Ralph, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia Aims & Scope “Lifelong Learning” has become a central theme in education and community development. Both international and national agencies, governments and educational institutions have adopted the idea of lifelong learning as their major theme for address and attention over the next ten years. They realize that it is only by getting people committed to the idea of education both life-wide and lifelong that the goals of economic advancement, social emancipation and personal growth will be attained. The Lifelong Learning Book Series aims to keep scholars and professionals informed about and abreast of current developments and to advance research and scholarship in the domain of Lifelong Learning. It further aims to provide learning and teaching materials, serve as a forum for scholarly and professional debate and offer a rich fund of resources for researchers, policy-makers, scholars, professionals and practitioners in the field. The volumes in this international Series are multi-disciplinary in orientation, polymathic in origin, range and reach, and variegated in range and complexity. They are written by researchers, professionals and practitioners working widely across the international arena in lifelong learning and are orientated towards policy improvement and educational betterment throughout the life cycle.
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Recovering Informal Learning Wisdom, Judgement and Community by
PAUL HAGER University of Technology, Sydney, Australia and
JOHN HALLIDAY University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK
A C.I.P. Catalogue record for this book is available from the Library of Congress.
ISBN 978-1-4020-9295-4 (PB) ISBN 978-1-4020-5345-0 (HB) ISBN 978-1-4020-5346-7 (e-book)
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