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Direct linkOlav Eikeland Ed.; Hedvig Johannesen Ed. – Peter Lang Publishing Group, 2024
This anthology discusses the necessity of an expanded notion of lifelong learning. Expanded lifelong learning means providing consistent and inter-connected preconditions for learning in all life contexts, both individually and collectively. Expanding the concept of lifelong learning means to provide conducive preconditions for learning,…
Descriptors: Lifelong Learning, Learning Activities, Informal Education, Learning Processes
Bérénice Darnault – Multilingual Matters, 2025
This book traces the motivational dynamics embedded within lifelong foreign language learning trajectories, examining the factors which generate and sustain motivation throughout a learner's life. Embracing a complexity approach, it views motivation as a long-term individual process that evolves along a narrative continuum, developing over the…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Lifelong Learning, Learning Motivation
Dennen, Vanessa – Stylus Publishing LLC, 2019
How can social media help transform a student's learning experience and promote active engagement with learning content and peers? "Social Media for Active Learning" helps instructors achieve this goal. Many people use social media in their everyday lives, seeking information and informal learning opportunities via their online networks.…
Descriptors: Social Media, Active Learning, Teaching Methods, Learning Experience
Gr ver Aukrust, Vibeke, Ed. – Elsevier, 2011
This collection of 58 articles from the recently-published third edition of the International Encyclopedia of Education focuses on learning, memory, attention, problem solving, concept formation, and language. Learning and cognition is the foundation of cognitive psychology and encompasses many topics including attention, memory, categorization,…
Descriptors: Memory, Concept Formation, Cognitive Psychology, Problem Solving
American Association of School Librarians (NJ3), 2009
How are AASL's (American Association of School Librarians) new learning standards, the "Standards for the 21st-Century Learner," incorporated into the school library media program? This publication from AASL takes an in-depth look at the strands of the "Standards for the 21st-Century Learner" and the indicators within those strands. It also…
Descriptors: School Libraries, Media Specialists, Library Skills, Educational Strategies
Arthur, James, Ed.; Peterson, Andrew, Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2011
"The Routledge Companion to Education" presents the most comprehensive, up-to-date guide available to the key theories, themes and topics in education. Forty specially commissioned chapters, covering all aspects of education, introduce you to the ideas, research and issues that have shaped this most diverse, dynamic and fluid field. Part one…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Social Class, Nontraditional Education, Multicultural Education
Mentkowski, Marcia – 2000
"Learning That Lasts" is defined as an integration of learning, development, and performance. This four-part book attempts to clarify how this kind of learning is understood by the learner, how it contributes to the development of the person, and how it is realized through effective performance in work, personal, and civic life. The chapters are:…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Instructional Effectiveness, Learning Processes, Learning Strategies
Confessore, Gary J., Ed.; Confessore, Sharon J., Ed. – 1992
The 15 chapters in this book include commentaries on 12 seminal works on self-directed learning (SDL) by Houle, Knowles, Tough, Spear and Mocker, Brookfield, Caffarella and O'Donnell, and Long et al. These works were identified by a Delphi panel of 49 experts. Chapter titles and authors are as follows: "An Introduction to the Study of…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Educational Practices, Educational Research
Lipton, Laura; Hubble, Deborah – 1997
Designed for teachers of kindergarten through grade 6, this book contains practical and innovative ideas on fostering literacy generated from discussions with teachers from the United States and Canada, visits to their classrooms, and observations of their interactions with students. The book addresses all levels of learner-centered literacy…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques, Elementary Education
Duncan, Donna; Lockhart, Laura – 2000
The I-Search is an inquiry-based process that compels students to move away from the traditional research report format in which they restate old information, empowering them and bringing out their curiosity and love of learning while laying a foundation for building a community of lifelong learners. Using the I-Search process, children move from…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Elementary Education, Information Seeking, Inquiry
Download full textDave, R. H., Ed. – 1975
The document contains reflections on the concept of lifelong education. Toward a Model of Lifelong Education (Malcolm S. Knowles) proposes a role competency model based on the assumption that the purpose of education is the development of competencies for performing various human roles. Lifelong Learning and Our Schools (Karl-Heinz Flechsig)…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Adult Education, Aspiration, Creative Development
Friedenthal-Haase, Martha, Ed. – 1998
This volume contains 36 biographies: "I.T.A. Wallace-Johnson and Radical Adult Education (AE) in Sierra Leone in the Years 1938/1939" (Turay); "Frank C. Laubach as the Father of the Adult Literacy Movement in India" (Ghosh); "A Historical Study on the Theory and Practice of Social and AE in Korea" (Lee); "Integrative Adult Educators" (Yaron);…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Educators, Biographies, Educational Change
Abbott, John; Ryan, Terry – 2001
In this book, it is argued that the so-called crisis in education is really a crisis in childhood and that the unit of change is not the school but rather the larger community. Schools inherited from the industrial age are structured to develop a mass of students who, at best, are equipped with basic skills and the ability to follow orders. The…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Constructivism (Learning), Early Childhood Education, Educational Change
Quisumbing, Lourdes R., Ed.; de Leo, Joy, Ed. – UNESCO-UNEVOC International Centre for Technical and Vocational Education and Training, 2005
This new Sourcebook provides information on how to teach values for learning and working together in a globalized world. It is designed for educators and trainers of technical and vocational education and training (TVET). Its emphasis is on the integrated development of the whole person within the context of lifelong learning and TVET, in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Values, Lifelong Learning, Vocational Education
Friedenthal-Haase, Martha, Ed. – 1998
This volume includes the following papers: "Foreword: The Standing International Conference on the History of Adult Education (AE)" (Franz Poeggeler); "Editor's Introduction: Perspectives on the Sixth International Conference on the History of AE" (Martha Friedenthal-Haase); two special addresses by Joerg Prinzhausen and Ursula…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Educators, Biographies, Developed Nations
