TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hager,Paul
AU  - Halliday,John
ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - Recovering Informal Learning: Wisdom, Judgement and Community 
T2  - Lifelong Learning Book Series
SN  - 9781402053467
U1  - 379 23
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Dordrecht
PB  - Springer Netherlands
KW  - EDUCATION
KW  - EDUCATION AND STATE
KW  - PHILOSOPHY
KW  - EDUCATIONAL POLICY
KW  - EDUCATIONAL PHILOSOPHY
KW  - PROFESSIONAL & VOCATIONAL EDUCATION
KW  - LEARNING & INSTRUCTION
KW  - EDUCATION & SOCIETY
N1  - Lifelong, Informal and Workplace Learning -- A Brief Genealogy Of Lifelong Learning -- Origins Of A Mistake -- Opportunity And Contingency -- Rethinking Learning -- The Importance Of Contextuality For Learning -- The Idea Of Practice -- The Idea Of Judgement -- Wisdom -- Recovering The Informal
N2  - For too long, theories and practices of learning have been dominated by the requirements of formal learning. Quite simply this book seeks to persuade readers through philosophical argument and empirically grounded examples that the balance should be shifted back towards the informal. These arguments and examples are taken from informal learning in very diverse situations, such as in leisure activities, as a preparation for and as part of work, and as a means of surviving undesirable circumstances like dead-end jobs and incarceration. Informal learning can be fruitfully thought of as developing the capacity to make context sensitive judgments during ongoing practical involvements of a variety of kinds. Such involvements are necessarily indeterminate and opportunistic. Hence there is a major challenge to policy makers in shifting the balance towards informal learning without destroying the very things that are desirable about informal learning and indeed learning in general. The book has implications therefore for formal learning too and the way that teaching might proceed within formally constituted educational institutions such as schools and colleges
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-5346-0
ER  -