Lifelong Learning - Signs, Discourses, Practices

Author:   Robin Usher ,  Richard Edwards
Publisher:   Springer
Edition:   Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2007
Volume:   8
ISBN:  

9789048174003


Pages:   184
Publication Date:   18 November 2010
Format:   Paperback
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This text explores the different ways in which the various social practices in which people participate becomes signed as learning, how and why that occurs and with what consequences. It takes seriously the linguistic turn in social theory to draw upon semiotics and poststructuralism through which to explore the significance of lifelong learning as an emerging discourse in education. The text explores the different ways in which learning conveys meaning and is given meaning. Given this, lifelong learning therefore is a way, and a significant way, in which learning is fashioned. The text then explores the notion that, if learning is lifelong and lifewide, what precisely is learning as distinct from other social practices and how those practices are given meaning as learning.

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Author:   Robin Usher ,  Richard Edwards
Publisher:   Springer
Imprint:   Springer
Edition:   Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2007
Volume:   8
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.00cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9789048174003


ISBN 10:   9048174007
Pages:   184
Publication Date:   18 November 2010
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of print, replaced by POD   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Setting the Scene.- Signing the Social.- Lifelong Learning As a Semiotic Process.- The Language Games of Lifelong Learning.- Signing Power in Lifelong Learning.- Fashioning Political Spaces.- Mobilizing the Lifelong Learner.- Connecting Lifelong Learning.- Lifelong Learning as Technique, and….- Lines of Flight….

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From the reviews: The aspiration of the authors is that their text will have interesting things to say about lifelong learning and the application of a semiotic approach. ! They have written a book that draws upon a range of intellectual resources to provide various significations of lifelong learning and this is a worthwhile project when set against the economism of education policy ! . In conclusion, this is a worthwhile text that would be of interest to research students and academics ! . (James Avis, Studies in the Education of Adults, Vol. 41 (1), Spring, 2009)


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