ERIC Number: ED389895
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1995
Pages: 134
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ISBN: ISBN-0-901800-83-X
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Innovation in Continuing Education Provision, Teaching and Learning: Research Perspectives. Papers from a Conference (Lancaster, England, United Kingdom, April 27, 1995).
Hamilton, Mary, Ed.; Withnall, Alexandra, Ed.
The following conference papers cover a wide spectrum of issues in continuing education: "Introduction" (Katherine Leni Oglesby); "Footprints in the Sand?--The Legacy of the University Funding Council's Support for Research in Continuing Education" (Chris Duke); "Thinking Fragments: Learning, Life Histories and the Self" (Linden West); "Group Research Projects in Adult Continuing Education" (Joan Unwin); "Adult Self-Directed Learning in the Community and Its Implications" (Keith Percy); "Creativity Training for Design Engineers in Heavy Plant Industries" (Graham Thompson, Martina Lordan); "The Leeds Adult Learners at Work Project: Knowledge and Control in Employee Development Schemes" (John Payne, Keith Forester); "'Personal Troubles and Public Issues': University Researchers, Adult Educators and Adult Learners in Rural Areas" (John Payne); "Voluntary Organisations. Citizenship, Learning and Change" (Konrad Elsdon); "Inside Perspectives: Ex-Prisoners' Views on Prison Education" (Sally Malin, Ina J. Kell); "Mainstreaming, Critical Histories and Cultural Identities" (Tom Steele); "Responding to Language Shift among Young People" (Heini Gruffudd); "Accessing the Imagination: Creative Writing in Community Education" (Rebecca O'Rourke); "Learning from Working Together: Experiencing Collaborative Research as Education" (Sue Shuttleworth et al.); "The Challenge of Linking Research and Practice: Ways of Learning in Adult Basic Education" (Mary Hamilton, Wendy Moss); "Disability Voice" (Mal Leicester); "Returners, Mathematics and Targeting" (Roseanne Benn); and "Access of Adult to the University: A Comparative UK/Belgian Study" (Barbara Merrill, Jean-Luc Guyot). Many papers contain substantial bibliographies. (MN)
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adult Students, College Programs, Community Education, Comparative Analysis, Continuing Education, Correctional Education, Creative Writing, Creativity, Disabilities, Educational Objectives, Educational Practices, Educational Research, Financial Support, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Independent Study, Industrial Training, Innovation, Mainstreaming, Mathematics Instruction, Multicultural Education, Research Methodology, Rural Areas, Rural Education, School Community Relationship, Teaching Methods, Theory Practice Relationship, Training Methods, Voluntary Agencies
Department of Continuing Education, Lancaster University, Storey Institute, Meeting House Lane, Lancaster LA1 1TH, England, United Kingdom (14.95 British pounds).
Publication Type: Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Authoring Institution: Lancaster Univ. (England). Dept. of Continuing Education.
Identifiers - Location: Belgium; United Kingdom
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