Supporting Lifelong Learning Volume II: Organising Learning

This book looks at what types of learning environments promote lifelong learning, how they can be organized to support meaningful learning and what the implications of these shifts are for managers. Examination is also made of the shift away from seeing formal institutions as the sole providers of education and the increasing recognition of the learning opportunities which exist outside the walls of institutions.

This Reader examines the ways in which learning is organized in a diverse range of lifelong learning environments. If we are to harness the full potential of this learning, the structures of organizations and providers will have to change.The book also examines the shift away fromthe perception offormal institutions as the sole providers of education and the increasing recognition of the learning opportunities which exist outside the walls of institutions. The book looks at what types of environment promote lifelong learning, how they can be organised to support meaningful learning and what the implications are for managers. Supporting Lifelong Learning Volume II: Organising Learning alsolooks atthe implications of wider concepts of the learning city, learning region and the learning society ina fresh and accessible text with a uniquely international dimension.

1. Learning to Work and Working to Learn 2. Skill Formation: Redirecting the Research Agenda 3. Envisioning New Organisations for Learning 4. Gender, Work and Workplace Learning 5. Towards the Learning Organisation? 6. The Impact of the Manager on Learning in the Workplace 7. Knowledge Creation in Japanese Manufacturing Companies in Italy 8. Managing Institutional Change and the Pressure for New Approaches to Teaching and Learning 9. Professional Education as a Structural Barrier to Lifelong Learning in the NHS 10. Communities of Practice and Social Learning Systems 11. The Learning City in the Learning Age 12. Learning for Active Citizenship: Training For and Learning from Participation in Area Regeneration

Marion Cartwright, Richard Edwards, Fiona Reeve