Lifelong Learning - Signs, Discourses, Practices [electronic resource] / by Robin Usher, Richard Edwards.

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....

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.