Adult Education and Lifelong Learning

Creative Life Writing as a Tool for Transformative Learning examines the effect of creative writing on learners, in terms of their personal development and individual sense of self...

Drawing on empirical research, this book presents the text–task–respondent (TTR) theory of functional literacy - a detailed and highly integrative new theory that offers an improved understanding of adults’ performance on everyday literacy tasks...

With a focus on lifelong learning, this book examines the shifts that UNESCO’s educational concepts have undergone in reaction to historical pressures and dilemmas since the founding of the organization in 1945. Elfert interprets the history of lifelong learning in UNESCO as part of a much bigger st..

Making research public is a key aspect of ensuring the quality of educational research, and Values and Virtues in Higher Education demonstrates the processes involved in doing and theorising such research. Explaining clearly why this explication is important, the book provides strong theoretical res..

This book examines the ways in which formal and non-formal education can contribute to mature and possibly illiterate women’s successful design, development and operation of small businesses in rural settings...

This book examines the ways in which formal and non-formal education can contribute to mature and possibly illiterate women’s successful design, development and operation of small businesses in rural settings...