Learning outside the academy : international research perspectives on lifelong learning / edited by Richard Edwards, Jim Gallacher & Susan Whittaker

'Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada.'

Based on material presented at the 2nd international conference on lifelong learning held at the Centre for Research in Lifelong Learning in UK

Includes bibliographical references and index

Introduction: tangled up in learning / Richard Edwards, Jim Gallacher and Susan Whittaker -- Theory, methods, concepts -- Informal learning: the challenge for research / Veronica McGivney -- Theorizing pedagogy within social action contexts: a case study of a South African trade union / Linda Cooper -- Inside out of experiential learning: fluid bodies, co-emergent minds / Tara Fenwick -- European policies on'non-formal' learning: a genealogical review / Helen Colley, Phil Hodkinson and Janice Malcolm -- Learning processes -- Combining work and learning: the disturbing challenge of practice / David Boud -- Pedagogic learning in the pedagogic workplace / Janice Malcolm and Miriam Zukas -- Recognition of tacit skills and knowledge in work re-entry: modelling of learning processes and outcomes / Natasha Kersh and Karen Evans -- Learning in non-formal settings and the development of'really useful' knowledge / Lyn Tett -- Knowledge and learning in social movements: issues and opportunities for adult community education / Jim Crowther -- Learning outcomes -- Learning in action: lessons from poor women in the south / Salma Ismail -- Re-reading the texts of RPL: what recontextualizing principles are coded into the selection of curriculum resources? / Judy Harris -- Learning in the new work order / Jean Searle -- Lifelong learning: reaching regions where other learning doesn't reach / Kate Sankey and Mike Osborne -- Researching outside the academy: emerging themes / Jim Gallacher, Richard Edwards and Susan Whittaker