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Jaeung Kim; Rebecca Tarlau – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2024
This article offers a comprehensive thematic literature review on labour education, exploring the major contributions as well as some of the limits of this scholarship and future directions for researchers. Based on an analysis of 180 English-language publications from the 1960s until today, we find several general trends that we analyse as four…
Descriptors: Labor Education, Unions, Social Influences, Political Influences
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Ruitenberg, Claudia W. – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2012
This case study focuses on "Walking Home Carrall Street," a series of walks with youth that took place in the autumn of 2010 on and around Carrall Street in Vancouver, BC. Through participant observations, interviews and analysis of the written reviews submitted by the youth, the purpose of the study is not to provide generalisable…
Descriptors: Nonformal Education, Youth Programs, Nonschool Educational Programs, Experiential Learning
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Kump, Sonja; Krasovec, Sabina Jelenc – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2007
Educating older adults (in the so-called third age) is becoming an increasingly important activity for the elderly, above all because it empowers them, while at the same time reducing their social exclusion. The aim of this paper is to closely examine the actual state of affairs and the education possibilities for older adults in Slovenia. The…
Descriptors: Older Adults, Foreign Countries, Social Isolation, Academic Achievement
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Reed, Horace B.; Loughran, Elizabeth L. – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 1988
This study developed and tested a framework to analyze 20 lifelong learning settings. Four groupings of approaches were identified: school-type, leisure time, bottom-up change movements, and top-down, national-level change movements. (JOW)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Educational Environment, Educational Theories, Lifelong Learning