Learning in places
Subtitle: the informal education reader
By: edited by Zvi Bekerman, Nicholas Constantine Burbules, Diana Silberman-Keller.
Contributors: Bekerman, Zvi.; Burbules, Nicholas C.; Silberman-Keller, Diana.
Series: Counterpoints ;; vol. 249; Counterpoints (New York, N.Y.) ;; v. 249.
Publisher: P. Lang
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 315
Subjects: Non-formal education.; Self-culture.; Continuing education.
Description: Learning in Places is a concerted effort undertaken by an outstanding group of international researchers to create a resource book that can introduce academic, professional and lay readers to the field of informal learning/education and its potential to transform present educational thinking. The book presents a wealth of ideas from a wide variety of disciplinary fields and methodological approaches covering multiple learning landscapes - in museums, workplaces, classrooms, places of recreation - in a variety of political, social and cultural contexts around the world. Learning in Places presents the most recent theoretical advances in the field; analyzing the social, cultural, political, historical and economical contexts within which informal learning develops and must be critiqued. It also looks into the epistemology that nourishes its development and into the practices that characterize its implementation; and finally reflects on the variety of educational contexts in which it is practiced.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.