Lifelong Learning – Signs, Discourses, Practices

• Main Authors: Usher, Robin (Author), Edwards, Richard (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2007.
• Series: Lifelong Learning Book Series ; 8
• Subjects: Education.; Curriculums (Courses of study).; Education > Curricula.; Educational policy.; ducation and state.; Educational sociology.; Education > Philosophy.; Education and sociology.; Sociology, Educational.; Educational Philosophy.; Sociology of Education.; Educational Policy and Politics.; Curriculum Studies.; Learning & Instruction.

This text explores the different ways in which the various social practices in which people participate becomes signed as learning, how and why that occurs and with what consequences. It takes seriously the linguistic turn in social theory to draw upon semiotics and poststructuralism through which t...

Table of Contents:

• Setting the Scene
• Signing the Social
• Lifelong Learning As a Semiotic Process
• The Language Games of Lifelong Learning
• Signing Power in Lifelong Learning
• Fashioning Political Spaces
• Mobilizing the Lifelong Learner
• Connecting Lifelong Learning
• Lifelong Learning as Technique, and…
• Lines of Flight….