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Second International Handbook of Lifelong Learning

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Editors:
  1. David N. Aspin

    1. , Faculty of Education, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

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  2. Judith Chapman

    1. Australian Catholic University, Fitzroy, Australia

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  3. Karen Evans

    1. University of London, Institute of Education, London, United Kingdom

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  4. Richard Bagnall

    1. , Arts, Education and Law, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia

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  • Substantially revised and updated edition of International Handbook of Lifelong Learning
  • Most comprehensive survey, analysis, exploration and development of problems, themes and issues in the field of lifelong learning
  • State of the art contributions from a wide range of international contributors from an extensive number of countries
  • Lifelong learning policies, programs and practices are being conceived, articulated, implemented and assessed

Part of the book series: Springer International Handbooks of Education (SIHE, volume 26)

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Table of contents (55 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-lxxxiv
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  2. History, Theory, and Philosophy

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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  3. History, Theory, and Philosophy

    1. Towards a Philosophy of Lifelong Learning

      • David N. Aspin, Judith D. Chapman
      Pages 3-35

    2. The Changing University, Lifelong Learning, and Personal Fulfilment

      • Robin St. C. Barrow, Patrick Keeney
      Pages 37-50

    3. Lifelong Learning: A Language Game in Search of Its Rules

      • Peter Gilroy
      Pages 51-59

    4. Organisational Contexts for Lifelong Learning: Individual and Collective Learning Configurations

      • Colin W. Evers
      Pages 61-76

    5. Democratic Inclusion and Lifelong Learning in a Globalising World

      • Penny Enslin, Mary Tjiattas
      Pages 77-90

    6. On Learning and Cosmopolitanism in Education

      • Yusef Waghid
      Pages 91-101

    7. It Is the Person Who Learns

      • Peter Jarvis
      Pages 103-111

    8. Of Maestros and Muscles: Expertise and Practices at Work

      • David Beckett
      Pages 113-127

    9. Continuing Professional Development and the Triadic Conception of Lifelong Learning

      • Mal Leicester
      Pages 129-138

    10. Lifelong Education: Some Deweyan Themes

      • Ivan A. Snook
      Pages 139-149

    11. Lifelong Learning: A Post-human Condition?

      • Richard Edwards
      Pages 151-162

    12. Reflections on a Definition: Revisiting the Meaning of Learning

      • Jan Visser
      Pages 163-179

    13. Egalitarian Policy Formulation in Lifelong Learning: Two Models of Lifelong Education and Social Justice for Young People in Europe

      • Melanie Walker
      Pages 181-193

    14. Focusing on the Heart: Lifelong, Life-Wide and Life-Deep Learning in the Time of HIV and AIDS

      • Shirley Walters
      Pages 195-208

    15. Lifelong Learning, Mindfulness and the Affective Domain of Education

      • Terry Hyland
      Pages 209-226

    16. Coming to Terms with the Learning Society: Between Autobiography and Politics

      • Kenneth Wain
      Pages 227-241

  4. The Policy Challenge

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 243-243
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    2. Life Chances, Learning and the Dynamics of Risk in the Life Course

      • Karen Evans, Ingrid Schoon, Martin Weale
      Pages 245-267
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About this book

The second edition of the International Handbook of Lifelong Learning is extensive, innovative, and international in scope, remit and vision, inviting its readers to engage in a critical re-appraisal of the theme of “lifelong learning”. It is a thorough-going, rigorous and scholarly work, with profound and wide-ranging implications for the future of educating institutions and agencies of all kinds in the conception, planning and delivery of lifelong learning initiatives. Lifelong learning requires a wholly new philosophy of learning, education and training, one that aims to facilitate a coherent set of links and pathways between work, school and education, and recognises the necessity for government to give incentives to industry and their employees so they can truly “invest” in lifelong learning. It is also a concept that is premised on the understanding of a learning society in which everyone, independent of race, creed or gender, is entitled to quality learning that is truly excellent.

This book recognises the need for profound changes in education and for goals that are critically important to education, economic advancement, and social involvement. To those concerned about the future of our society, our economy and educational provision, this book provides a richly illuminating basis for powerful debate. Drawing extensively on policy analyses, conceptual thinking and examples of informed and world-standard practice in lifelong learning endeavours in the field, both editors and authors seek to focus readers' attention on the many issues and decisions that must be addressed if lifelong learning is to become a reality for us all. 

Editors and Affiliations

  • , Faculty of Education, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

    David N. Aspin

  • Australian Catholic University, Fitzroy, Australia

    Judith Chapman

  • University of London, Institute of Education, London, United Kingdom

    Karen Evans

  • , Arts, Education and Law, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia

    Richard Bagnall

About the editors

DAVID ASPIN is Emeritus Professor of Education, School of Graduate Studies, and formerly Dean of the Faculty of Education, Monash University, Australia. Prior to this he was Professor of Philosophy of Education at King's College London and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Philosophy of Education in the Institute of Education, both in the University of London. With Judith Chapman he is co-author of the publication The School, the Community and Lifelong Learning (London: Cassell 1997) and, with Judith Chapman, Michael Hatton and Yukiko Sawano, co-editor of the International Handbook on Lifelong Learning (Dordrecht: Kluwer 2001). In 1999 he was awarded a Visiting Fellowship at the International Studies Center of the Rockefeller Foundation in Bellagio, Como, Italy; in 2004 was appointed a Visiting Professor at the Nottingham University. In 2007 he was elected a Visiting Fellow at St Edmund’s College Cambridge. In 2006 he was editor of two volumes in the Springer Press “Lifelong Learning” series – Philosophical Perspectives on Lifelong Learning, and (with Judith Chapman) Values Education and Lifelong Learning. His current research centres on lifelong learning, principally its epistemological, mental and methodological aspects; and on values and values education, principally their normative conclusions and meta-ethical aspects. JUDITH D CHAPMAN AM is Professor of Education and formerly Dean of the Faculty of Education at Australian Catholic University. Judith was formerly Professor of Education Associate Dean (Teaching and Learning) of the combined faculties of Economics, Commerce, Education and Law at the University of Western Australia and Director of the School Decision-making and Management Centre at Monash University in Australia. KAREN EVANS is Professor of Education ( Lifelong Learning) at the Institute of Education, University of London, where she was formerly Head of the School of Lifelong Education and International Development. Her mainresearch interests are learning in life and work transitions, and learning in and through the workplace. Books include Improving Literacy at Work ( 2011); Learning, Work and Social Responsibility (2009); Improving Workplace Learning (2006); Reconnection: Countering Social Exclusion through Situated Learning (2004); Working to Learn (2002); Learning and Work in the Risk Society (2000). She was Editor of COMPARE, the journal of comparative and international education, between 2004 and 2009 and is currently a leading researcher in the Economic and Social Research Council’s Research Centre (LLAKES) on Learning and Life Chances in Knowledge Economies and Societies. She is an Academician of the UK Academy of Social Sciences. RICHARD G. BAGNALL is a Professor in Adult and Vocational Education and Dean (Research) for the Arts, Education and Law Academic Group at Griffith University, Australia. His scholarly work is in the social philosophy of adult and lifelong education, with particular emphasis on the ethics of educational theory, advocacy and policy. He has published over 100 books and papers in that field, including Cautionary Tales in the Ethics of Lifelong Learning Policy and Management: A Book of Fables (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic, 2004), and Discovering Radical Contingency: Building a Postmodern Agenda in Adult Education (New York: Peter Lang, 1999). His teaching is centred on the philosophy of adult and lifelong learning. He has supervised to graduation the doctoral studies of over 25 doctoral and 30 research masters and honours degree candidates.

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