International Handbook of Lifelong Learning

Section 1: Lifelong Learning: Conceptual, Philosophical And Values Issues.- 1.1 Towards a Philosophy of Lifelong Learning.- 1.2 Locating Lifelong Learning and Education in Contemporary Currents of Thought and Culture.- 1.3 Lifelong Learning and Personal Fulfillment.- 1.4 Political Inclusion, Democratic Empowerment and Lifelong Learning.- 1.5 Lifelong Learning and the Contribution of Informal Learning.- 1.6 Lifelong Learning, Changing Economies and the World of Work.- 1.7 From Adult Education to Lifelong Learning.- 1.8 Caring for the Adult Self.- 1.9 Lifelong Learning for a Learning Democracy.- 1.10 Lifelong Education: Some Deweyan Themes.- 1.11 Lifelong Learning in the Postmodem.- 1.12 Lifelong Learning: Small Adjustment or Paradigm Shift?.- Section 2: The Policy Challenge.- 2.1 Lifelong Learning Policies in Low Development Contexts: An African Perspective.- 2.2 Lifelong Learning and Developing Society.- 2.3 Lifelong Learning Policies in Transition Countries.- 2.4 Trends in and Objectives of Adult Higher Education in China.- 2.5 Lifelong Learning and the Leisure-Oriented Society: The Development and Challenges in the Far East.- 2.6 The Swedish Adult Education Initiative: From Recurrent Education to Lifelong Learning.- 2.7 Towards New Lifelong Learning Contracts in Sweden.- 2.8 How to Make Lifelong Learning a Reality: Implications for the Planning of Educational Provision in Australia.- 2.9 Lifelong Learning: a Monitoring Framework and Trends in Participation.- Section 3: Structures and Programs in Lifelong Learning.- 3.1 Schools and the Learning Community: Laying the Basis for Learning Across the Lifespan.- 3.2 Integrity, Completeness and Comprehensiveness of the Learning Environment: Meeting the Basic Learning Needs Of All Throughout Life.- 3.3 Innovative Teachers: Promoting Lifelong Learning for All.- 3.4 Lifelong Learning and Tertiary Education: The Learning University Revisited.- 3.5 Universities as Centres for Lifelong Learning: Opportunities and Threats at the Institutional Level.- 3.6 Islands and Bridges: Lifelong Learning and Complex Systems of Higher Education in Canada.- 3.7 The Impact of the Dearing Report on UK Higher Education.- 3.8 Lifelong Learning and Technical and Further Education.- 3.9 Learning Communities for a Learning Century.- 3.10 Lifelong Learning and the Learning Organization.- Section 4: The Practice: Formal, Informal and Non-formal Initiatives in Learning Across the Lifespan.- 4.1 Community Colleges and Lifelong Learning: Canadian Experiences.- 4.2 From Literacy to Lifelong Learning in Tanzania.- 4.3 Lifelong Learning and the Private Sector.- 4.4 Recent Trends in the Practice of Lifelong Learning and Adult Education in Russia.- 4.5 Community Empowerment Through Lifelong Community Learning in Developing Countries.- 4.6 Lifelong Learning, the Individual and Community Self-help.- 4.7 New Lives for Old: Lifelong Learning Among the Indigenous Peoples of Taiwan and Canada.- 4.8 Promoting Lifelong Learning in Developing Countries: The Institutional Environment.- 4.9 Learning in the Third Age.- Index of Names.- Index of Subjects.