Philosophical Perspectives on Lifelong Learning [electronic resource] / edited by David N. Aspin.

Conceptual Frameworks -- Lifelong Learning: Concepts and Conceptions -- Lifelong Learning and the Politics of the Learning Society -- Lifelong Learning and Vocational Education and Training: Values, Social Capital, and Caring in Work-Based Learning Provision -- From Adult Education to Lifelong Learning and Back Again -- 'Framing' Lifelong Learning in the Twenty-First Century: Towards a Way of Thinking -- Values Dimension -- Lifelong Learning: Conceptual and Ethical Issues -- Lifelong Learning: Beyond Neo-Liberal Imaginary -- Widening Participation in Higher Education: Lifelong Learning as Capability -- Lifelong Learning: Exploring Learning, Equity and Redress, and Access -- Lifelong Learning and Democratic Citizenship Education in South Africa -- Epistemological Questions -- Lifelong Learning and Knowledge: Towards a General Theory of Professional Inquiry -- The Nature of Knowledge and Lifelong Learning -- Reading Lifelong Learning Through a Postmodern Lens -- Lifelong Learning in Practice -- Good Practice in Lifelong Learning -- Philosophical Perspectives on Lifelong Learning: Insights from Education, Engineering, and Economics -- Building a Learning Region: Whose Framework of Lifelong Learning Matters? -- Changing Ideas and Beliefs in Lifelong Learning?.

The aim of this book is provide an easily accessible, practical yet scholarly source of information about the international concern for the philosophy, theory, categories and concepts of lifelong learning. The books is concerned to examine in depth the range of philosophical perspectives in the field of lifelong learning theory, policy, practice and applied scholarship, extending the scale and scope of the substantive contribution made by philosophical and theoretical approaches to our understanding of education. The book seeks to make an informed contribution to shaping, expanding and deepening people's understanding the direction of future developments in educational institutions of all kinds preparing for, providing and delivering lifelong learning in all kinds of formal informal and alternative education institutions, agencies and organizations, and their various approaches, policies, practices and processes in the twenty-first century.