LIFELONG LEARNING IN PAID AND UNPAID WORK by D. W. Livingstone ( 9781136981722 )

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LIFELONG LEARNING IN PAID AND UNPAID WORK
SURVEY AND CASE STUDY FINDINGS

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ISBN 10:

1136981721

ISBN 13:

9781136981722

Publisher:

TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD

Pub. date:

1 April, 2010

Pages:

272

Synopsis:

Lifelong Learning is essential to all individuals and in recent years has become a guiding principle for policy initiatives, ranging from national economic competition to issues of social cohesion and personal fulfilment. However, despite the importance of lifelong learning there is a critical absence of direct, international evidence on its extent, content and outcomes.Lifelong Learning in Paid and Unpaid Work provides a new paradigm for understanding work and learning, documenting the active contribution of workers to their development and their adaptation to paid and unpaid work. Empirical evidence drawn from national surveys in Canada and eight related case studies is used to explore the current learning activities of those in paid employment, housework and volunteer work, addressing all forms of learning including: formal schooling, further education courses, informal training and self-directed learning, particularly in the context of organisational and technological change.Proposing an expanded conceptual framework for investigating the relationships between learning and work, the contributors offer new insights into the ways in which adult learning adapts to and helps reshape the wide contemporary world of work throughout the life course.

Illustrations:

41 Tables, black and white; 10 Illustrations, black and white

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Routledge

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Non-returnable

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