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Epistemologies and Ethics in Adult Education and Lifelong Learning
Call Number: OhioLINK / Springer eBook • 2022
Book Description: "This book presents and advocates for a framework of competing epistemologies and conceptions of ethics as a way of understanding modernist lifelong learning. These epistemologies are grounded in a recognition of the normative nature of knowledge that informs lifelong learning; each being framed by a different account of the sort of knowledge that is most valued and therefore foregrounded in lifelong learning policy, provision and engagement informed by the epistemology. "
Research Approaches on Workplace Learning
Call Number: OhioLINK / Springer eBook • 2022
Book Description: "The volume comprises a variety of research approaches that seek to explore and understand employees’ learning and development through and for work. Working life reveals challenges through technological, economic and societal development that can only rudimentarily be addressed by formal education and training. Workplace learning becomes more and more important for employees and enterprises to successfully cope with these challenges."
Practice-Focused Research in Further Adult and Vocational Education
Call Number: OhioLINK eBook • 2020
Book Description: "This book examines how educational practice can be improved through practice-focused educational research. The editors and contributors explore the issues involved in breaking down boundaries between educational research and practice - research often seen as an elitist activity that can only be determined by a favoured few - as well as the socially constructed nature of boundaries between academic and vocational education.."
Pedagogies for Future-Oriented Adult Learners
Call Number: OhioLINK / Springer eBook • 2022
Book Description: "This book presents a collection of chapters—both empirical and conceptual—that challenge existing paradigms of learning and teaching, provides examples of pedagogical spaces and practices that nurture future-oriented learners, explicates identities and transitions in learning, and offers alternative frames for moving forward."