Long description:

"key arguments for policy and practice for lifelong learning in higher education." Higher Education Digest

At the beginning of the 21st century it is increasingly clear to professionals at all levels of formal and informal education that we need to refresh the concept of lifelong learning. Most importantly, the concept needs to be expanded so that it is lifelong and lifewide, concerned not just with serial requirements of those already engaged, but also with the creation of opportunities for those who have not found the existing structures and processes accessible or useful.

This book discusses resulting arguments about policy and practice in three parts:


Part One focuses on the lifelong dimension, addressing in particular the changing nature of the student population.


Part Two investigates the lifewide connections between higher education and other areas of social and economic life.


Part Three offers a structural analysis, based on research on changing needs of learners, and setting out some key implications for higher education.

Higher Education and the Lifecourse provides a timely analysis of the higher education sector and will be an important resource for graduate students, researchers, policy makers and senior managers within the fields of higher and post-compulsory education.

"key arguments for policy and practice for lifelong learning in higher education." Higher Education Digest

At the beginning of the 21st century it is increasingly clear to professionals at all levels of formal and informal education that we need to refresh the concept of lifelong learning. Most importantly, the concept needs to be expanded so that it is lifelong and lifewide, concerned not just with serial requirements of those already engaged, but also with the creation of opportunities for those who have not found the existing structures and processes accessible or useful.

This book discusses resulting arguments about policy and practice in three parts:


Part One focuses on the lifelong dimension, addressing in particular the changing nature of the student population.


Part Two investigates the lifewide connections between higher education and other areas of social and economic life.


Part Three offers a structural analysis, based on research on changing needs of learners, and setting out some key implications for higher education.

Higher Education and the Lifecourse provides a timely analysis of the higher education sector and will be an important resource for graduate students, researchers, policy makers and senior managers within the fields of higher and post-compulsory education.

Table of Contents:

LIST OF CONTENTS

Editors' Introduction

Section I: Higher Education and Lifelong Learning

1.Euro student 2000: comparisons with the United Kingdom
Brian Ramsden

2.Getting Real: the evidence on access and achievement?
John Field

3.Disabled students in higher education: legislation, teaching, learning and assessment.


Sheila Riddell, Teresa Tinklin and Alastair Wilson

4.Rurality and higher education: a conceptual analysis


Neil Moreland, Joyce Chamberlain and Kepa Artaraz

Section II: Higher Education and Lifewide Learning

5.Student feedback, learning and development
Dai Hounsell

6.Reconstructing students as consumers: power and assimilation?
Louise Morley

7.Self-directed learning on-line
Philip Candy

8.Access to what? Opportunities in education and employment
John Brennan and Tarla Shah

Section III: Perspectives

9. The global challenge

10.Higher education and civil society

11.The university and life-chances
David Watson

12.Learning through life - higher education and the lifecourse of individuals


Andrew Pollard

Bibliography


Index