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Adult Cognition and Lifelong Learning
"Adult Cognition as a Dimension of Lifelong Learning"
by Stephen Brookfield
Reviews likely candidates for models of adult cognition
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Open and Distance Learning
"Beauty lies in the eye of the beholder"
by Judith Calder
Examines the issues of "best practice" in relation to open and distance learning
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Inclusion
"Challenging the Discourses of Inclusion and Exclusion with off limits curricula"
by Julia Preece
Explores some paradoxes of definition between inclusion and exclusion and looks at some of the reasons why the topic is of current political interest
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Management in post-school education and training
"Educational Leadership and Management: some consequences from tertiary-level institutions"
by David Robertson
Examines the current state of management in tertiary education
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Learning Organisations
"Learning Organisations, Lifelong Learning and the Mystery of the Vanishing Employers"
by Ewart Keep
A review of UK employers provision of lifelong learning
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Lifelong Learning Policy, Strategy and Culture
"Lifelong Learning : Policy, Strategy and Culture"
by Colin Griffin
Discusses the status of public Lifelong Learning policy with respect to its stated aims
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Vocational Education and Training in the Workplace
"Lifelong learning in workplace settings: the case of the young worker"
by Lorna Unwin
Explores the implications for workplace learning of changes in the demand for skills across industry and commerce and the lifelong learning prospects of young employees, including the UK 's Modern Apprenticeship scheme.
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Quality Assurance
" Never Mind the Quality, Measure the Length"
by Paul Armstrong and
Focuses on current issues, including the definition of quality and key quality strategies in lifelong learning
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Educational Technology
"New Technology and Lifelong Learning"
by Mary Thorpe
Identifies key issues and questions arising from the research into new technology applications, focusing specifically on lifelong learning.
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Older Learners
"Older Learners: Issues and Perspectives"
by Alexandra Withnall
Examines current thinking in the light of shifting demographics and socio-economic developments, and suggests perspectives on policy for the future
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Lifelong Learning Pedagogies
"Pedagogies for Lifelong Learning: Building Bridges or Building Walls?"
by Miriam Zukas and Janice Malcolm
Argues that lifelong learning pedagogies do not, as yet, exist in the UK and describes five pedagogic identities which have emerged from the pedagogic literature of adult and higher education
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Learning Societies
"Recognising the Pedagogy of Voice in a Learning Community"
by Stewart Ranson
Elaborates an argument being developed in five Education Action Zones (EAZs). The Zones are a policy initiative designed to create the new forms of governance - learning communities of partnership and voluntary participation - that can develop the capabilities citizens need for the task of regenerating civil society.
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Participation
"Robbing Peter to pay Paul: resolving the contradiction of lifelong learning"
by Stephen Gorard
Attempts to draw together relevant findings from a series of studies of lifelong learning, by considering a distinction between initial and later episodes of education and training
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Literacies
"Sustainable Literacies and the Ecology of Lifelong Learning"
by Mary Hamilton
Proposes conditions for furthering a sustainable Lifelong Learning strategy for literacy, starting from a position within the New Literacy Studies and based on data from an ethnographic study of literacy.
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Social Capital
"Thinking About Social Capital"
by Tom Schuller
Introduces the notion of social capital, its relation to human capital, and some of its implications for policy and practice
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Guidance
" Vocational Guidance and Inclusion in Lifelong Learning"
by Pamela Clayton and
Explores the role of vocational guidance for those at risk of social exclusion
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Workplace Learning
"Work-based Learning: the implications for Higher Education and for supporting informal learning in the workplace"
by Jim Gallacher and Fiona Reeve
Addresses the increasing importance of links between the academy and the workplace in supporting lifelong learning
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