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Author(s): Neil Selwyn, Stephen Gorard, John Furlong
ISBN(s): 9780203003039, 0203003039
Edition: Kindle
File Details: PDF, 1.54 MB
Year: 2005
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0203003039 
ISBN 13: 9780203003039
Author: Neil Selwyn

This engaging book sheds light on the ways in which adults in the twenty-first century interact with technology in different learning environments. Based on one of the first large-scale academic research projects in this area, the authors present their findings and offer practical recommendations for the use of new technology in a learning society. They invite debate on: why ICTs are believed to be capable of affecting positive change in adult learning the drawbacks and limits of ICT in adult education what makes a lifelong learner the wider social, economic, cultural and political realities of the information age and the learning society. Adult Learning addresses key questions and provides a sound empirical foundation to the existing debate, highlighting the complex realities of the learning society and e-learning rhetoric. It tells the story of those who are excluded from the learning society, and offers a set of strong recommendations for practitioners, policy-makers, and politicians, as well as researchers and students.

Adult Learning in the Digital Age 1st Table of contents:

Chapter 1: The promise of adult learning in the digital age
Introduction
ICTs and the political challenges of the information society
The importance of learning and education in the information society—the rise of the ‘le@rning society’
The importance of adult learning within the learning society model
The significance of ICT and adult learning in the learning society and information society models
Mapping the adult le@rning landscape
Conclusion
Chapter 2: Impediments to adult learning in the digital age
Introduction
Technological caveats to the le@rning society
Social and educational caveats to the le@rning society
Avoiding assumptions of ICT as a technical fix for adult education
Conclusion
Chapter 3: Questioning adult learning in the digital age Research questions and methods
Introduction
Avoiding some weaknesses of previous research on adult learning and technology
Principles of the Adult Learning@Home research project
Research questions
Research methods
Conclusion
Chapter 4: What makes a lifelong learner?
Introduction
What are the patterns of participation in lifelong learning?
What are the determinants of participation in adult learning?
To what extent does use of ICT interrupt or reinforce existing patterns of participation in lifelong learning?
Discussion
Chapter 5: What do people use ICTs for?
Introduction
Who among our household survey has access to various technologies with a capability of delivering learning experiences?
What do adults report using ICTs for in their day-to-day lives?
What is the level and nature of adults’ use of ICTs for formal education?
What is the level and nature of adults’ use of ICTs for educative purposes in the workplace?
What is the level and nature of adults’ use of ICTs for educative purposes in the home and community?
Who is, and who is not, using ICT for educative purposes?
ICT and learning—the views of participants
Discussion
Conclusion
Chapter 6: Adult learning with ICTs in the home
Introduction
The home as a site of the le@rning society
What role(s) do education and learning play in adults’ gaining possession and ownership of ICTs?
What role(s) do education and learning play in adults’ objectification of ICTs within the spatial and aesthetic environment of the home?
What role(s) do education and learning play in adults’ incorporation of ICTs into the routines of daily life?
Discussion
Conclusion
Chapter 7: Bringing ICTs home: The Influence of the workplace
Introduction
Bringing the computer home
Generation and changing work practices
Different forms of engagement
Learning and training for ICT at work
Discussion
Chapter 8: Adult learning with ICTs in public and community settings
Introduction
Who is using (and not using) what forms of public ICT site?
How and why are adults making use of public ICT sites and with what outcomes?
Why are adults not making more use of public ICT sites?
Discussion
Conclusion
Chapter 9: The social processes of learning to use computers
Introduction
The role of formal learning in people’s learning to use computers
The role of informal learning in people’s learning to use computers
Discussion
Conclusions
Chapter 10: Making sense of adult learning in a digital age
Introduction
Revisiting our research questions
Conclusion
Chapter 11: Recommendations for future policy, practice and research
Introduction
Suggestions for government and policymakers
Suggestions for the IT industry
Suggestions for practitioners
Suggestions for researchers

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