Recovering Informal Learning

Name: Recovering Informal Learning
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Wisdom, Judgement and Community

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Lifelong Learning Book Series

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For too long, theories and practices of learning have been dominated by the requirements of formal learning. Quite simply this book seeks to persuade readers through philosophical argument and empirically grounded examples that the balance should be shifted back towards the informal. These arguments and examples are taken from informal learning in very diverse situations, such as in leisure activities, as a preparation for and as part of work, and as a means of surviving undesirable circumstances like dead-end jobs and incarceration. Informal learning can be fruitfully thought of as developing the capacity to make context sensitive judgments during ongoing practical involvements of a variety of kinds. Such involvements are necessarily indeterminate and opportunistic. Hence there is a major challenge to policy makers in shifting the balance towards informal learning without destroying the very things that are desirable about informal learning and indeed learning in general. The book has implications therefore for formal learning too and the way that teaching might proceed within formally constituted educational institutions such as schools and colleges.

Release date Australia

February 8th, 2007

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Professional & Vocational

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XIV, 280 p.

Pages

280

Series

Lifelong Learning Book Series

Dimensions

156x234x17

ISBN-13

9781402053450

Product ID

2074289

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