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  • Reshaping Labour

    Organisation, Work and Politics

    by John Holford ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: The Labour Movement
    First published in 1988. In a few short years during and just after the Great War, the Labour Party and the trade unions established themselves firmly at the centre of the British political and industrial scene. But at the same time, the politics and organisation of both Labour and unions were reshaped.This is a grass-roots study of a key period in the building of Labour’s political and industrial ... Read more

    $50.83 CAD

  • Forty Years of the International Journal of Lifelong Education, Volume II

    Insights on Published Research

    Edited by John Holford, Steven Hodge, Marcella Milana, Elizabeth Knight, Richard Waller, Sue Webb ...
    Over the last forty years, the International Journal of Lifelong Education has become a global leader in the field of research on adult education and lifelong learning. Drawing extensively on articles published in the journal, scholars from Africa, Asia, North and South America, Australasia and Europe reflect in two volumes on how the field has evolved over four decades, and on the strengths and ... Read more

    $107.17 CAD

  • Lifelong Learning, Young Adults and the Challenges of Disadvantage in Europe

    Edited by John Holford, Pepka Boyadjieva, Sharon Clancy, Günter Hefler, Ivana Studená ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This open access book challenges international policy ‘groupthink’ about lifelong learning. Adult learning – too long a servant of business competitiveness – should be reimagined as central to democratic society. Young adults, especially from disadvantaged backgrounds, engage more in education and training, and learn more day-to-day at work, if provision is democratically organised and based on ... Read more

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  • Forty Years of the International Journal of Lifelong Education, Volume I

    Reflections on a Changing Field

    Edited by John Holford, Steven Hodge, Marcella Milana, Richard Waller, Sue Webb ...
    Over the last forty years, the International Journal of Lifelong Education has become a global leader in the field of research on adult education and lifelong learning. Drawing extensively on articles published in the journal, scholars from Africa, Asia, North and South America, Australasia and Europe reflect in two volumes on how the field has evolved over four decades, and on the strengths and ... Read more

    $107.17 CAD

  • The Learning Adult

    Building and Reflecting on the Work of Peter Jarvis

    Edited by John Holford, Marcella Milana, Richard Waller, Sue Webb ...
    Peter Jarvis is a towering figure in adult and lifelong education and a leading and original theorist of learning. This book explores the breadth and significance of his work. Sixteen chapters by leading international scholars explain and engage critically with his theorisation of learning, and with his extensive writings on the sociology, politics, ethics and history of adult education, and on ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • Adult and Lifelong Education

    Global, national and local perspectives

    Edited by Marcella Milana, John Holford, Vida Mohorčič Špolar ...
    Adult and Lifelong Education explores why politicians, researchers, and practitioners involved in educating post-school young people and adults have quietly abandoned the term ‘education’ in favour of ‘learning’. Bringing together contributions from experienced as well as younger scholars, and from Europe, North America, and Australasia, it draws on global, national, and local perspectives to ... Read more

    $92.06 CAD

  • The Theory and Practice of Learning

    Edited by Peter Jarvis, John Holford, Colin Griffin ...
    Learning is among the most basic of human activities. The study of learning, and research into learning is becoming a central part of educational studies. This is a comprehensive introduction to contemporary theories and modern practices of learning. Updated and expanded, this second edition should be of interest to teachers, facilitators, human resource developers and students of education. The ... Read more

    $365.52 CAD

  • International Perspectives on Lifelong Learning

    Edited by Colin (Senior Lecturer in Adult Education Griffin, John (Senior Lecturer in Adult Education Holford, Peter (Head of Adult Education Jarvis ...
    Taking an international perspective, the authors examine the theoretical and practical aspects of lifelong learning. A number of issues and key areas of debate are addressed in different national and international contexts and case studies are provided from countries including Hong Kong. ... Read more

    $56.33 CAD

  • The Palgrave International Handbook on Adult and Lifelong Education and Learning

    Edited by Richard Waller, John Holford, Sue Webb, Peter Jarvis, Marcella Milana ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This Handbook provides a wide-ranging frame of reference for researching adult and lifelong education and learning. With contributions from scores of established and newer scholars from six continents, the volume covers a diverse range of geopolitical and social territories across the world.Drawing on the multiple heritages that underpin research on education and learning in adulthood, this ... Read more

    $306.19 CAD

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  • The Routledge International Handbook of Lifelong Learning

    Edited by Peter Jarvis ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks of Education
    As lifelong learning grows in popularity, few comprehensive pictures of the phenomenon have emerged. The Routledge International Handbook of Lifelong Learning provides a disciplined and complete overview of lifelong learning internationally.The theoretical structure puts the learner at the centre and the book emanates from there, pointing to the social context beyond the learner.Up-to-the-minute ... Read more

    $148.40 CAD

  • Social Capital and Economics

    Social Values, Power, and Social Identity

    Edited by Asimina Christoforou, John Davis ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Social Economics
    This volume provides a collection of critical new perspectives on social capital theory by examining how social values, power relationships, and social identity interact with social capital. This book seeks to extend this theory into what have been largely under-investigated domains, and, at the same time, address long-standing, classic questions in the literature concerning the forms, ... Read more

    $114.04 CAD

  • Women, Oppression and Social Work

    Issues in Anti-Discriminatory Practice

    Edited by Lesley Day, Mary Langan ...
    Many of the gains of the women's movement over the past 20 years now seem threatened by the combined effects of prolonged economic insecurity, reductions in the scope of welfare provision and a general shift in the climate of public opinion to the right. Social workers are faced with the growing damands of a more inpoverished and more unstable society, with less resources to meet these demands. In ... Read more

    $100.30 CAD