In both paid and unpaid work contexts adults learn powerfully from their experiences. In this book, the authors argue that this should be the basis for a new perception of what is truly educational in life. Drawing on the works of Aristotle, Wittgenstein and Russell, along with contemporary conceptual work, they use both philosophical argument and empirical example to establish their view.This work will be of essential interest to philosophers of education and educational theorists worldwide. It will also interest teachers, trainers, facilitators, and all those with an interest in adult and vocational education.

Life, Work and Learning: Practice in postmodernity (Routledge International Studies in the Philosophy of Education)

Business & Money

Beckett, David

Hager, Paul

Management & Leadership

Routledge

Life, Work and Learning (Routledge International Studies in the Philosophy of Education)

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Recovering Informal Learning: Wisdom, Judgement and Community (Lifelong Learning Book Series, 7)

<p>Educational theory and practice have long been dominated by the requirements of formal learning. This book seeks to persuade readers through philosophical argument and empirical examples that the balance should shift back towards the informal. The arguments and examples derive from informal learning in diverse situations, such as leisure activities, as a preparation for and as part of work, and as a means of surviving undesirable circumstances like dead-end jobs and incarceration.</p>

Halliday, John

Job Hunting & Careers

Springer

Theories and practices of learning have been dominated by the requirements of formal learning. This book seeks to persuade through philosophical argument and empirically grounded examples that the balance should be shifted back towards the informal.

<p><div>This book centres on a broadened view of complexity that will enrich engagement with complexity in the social sciences.&nbsp;The key idea&nbsp;is to employ complexity theory to develop a holistic account of practice, agency and expertise.&nbsp;In doing so, the book acknowledges and builds upon the relational character of reductive accounts. It&nbsp;draws upon recent theoretical work on complexity, emergence and relationality to develop a novel account of practice, agency and expertise in and for workplaces. Biological, psychological and social aspects of these are integrated. This novel account overcomes problems in current views of practice, agency and expertise, which suffer from reductive, or fragmented, analyses, based upon individuals, groups, or networks. In retrieving the experiential richness of human activity - often esteemed as the basis of generative and creative life - this book shows how complexity both emerges from, and is, a non-reductive feature of, human experience, especially in daily work.<br /></div> <div> <p><i>"...an ambitiously wide-ranging volume, questioning the key tenets of respected approaches ..... and offering ..... 'novel accounts', which draw on features of complexity thinking.... ...But they go further than any of us in their argument that: 'whatever reductive moves are made, they 'flow' from holistic accounts of relationality which have already affectively engaged the purposes of a co-present group.' This is the intellectual contribution that is built consistently and persuasively across the chapters."&nbsp;</i><br /> Professor Emerita Anne Edwards, Oxford University</p> <p><i>"Hager and Beckett have written a book that will challenge more commonly held notions of agency, practice, skills, and learning. Centering their argument on complexity theory or, as they prefer, complexity thinking, Hager and Beckett argue that it is through relations that we raise questions about, gather data from, and make working sense of the complexity that surrounds us. Groups then, particularly small groups, hold and implement agentive power. And what the authors call co-present groups--ones in which holistic relationality occurs socially, and affectively in distinctive places--"draw us closer to each other, and harness our normativity by enabling negotiability and reason-giving." If your field of study involves anything remotely sociocultural in nature or if you are just interested in the complex ways we engage as humans with our worlds, you should find a place for this book in your library."<br /></i>Bob Fecho, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York NY, USA</p> </div></p>

The Emergence of Complexity: Rethinking Education as a Social Science (Perspectives on Rethinking and Reforming Education)

Die öffentlich-rechtliche Regelung des Privatversicherungswesens in Deutschland: Unter Berücksichtigung des deutschen »Entwurfes eines Gesetzes über ... (German Edition)

de Gruyter

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