Learning cities for adult learners
By: Leodis Scott, editor
Series: New directions for adult and continuing education -- number 145; New directions for adult and continuing education -- no. 145.
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 99
ISBN-13: 9781119075318; 9781119075394; 9781119075271
Subjects: EDUCATION; Non-Formal Education; Adult & Continuing Education; Continuing education; Philosophy; Adult education
Description: Learning cities call for a connection of adult education to elementary, secondary, and postsecondary institutions along with vocational and corporate workspaces. This volume considers how "learning cities for adult learners" could be created in America that promote lifelong learning and education. Encouraging a widespread approach to educate and learn across disciplines, within communities, and inside the minds of all people, topics covered include: workplace and organizational learning, community engagement and service learning, public libraries and cooperative extension, and l.
Notes: "Spring 2015."

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Evolution and reconstruction of learning cities for sustainable actions  -- Connie Watson, Aimee Tiu Wu; title: Learning cities, systems change, and community engagement scholarship  -- Hiram E. Fitzgerald, Renee Zientek; title: Workplace, organizational, and societal: three domains of learning for 21st-century cities  -- Lyle Yorks, Jody Barto; title: Public libraries and cooperative extension as community partners for lifelong learning and learning cities  -- Alysia Peich, Cynthia Needles Fletcher; title: A connected history of health and education: learning together toward a better city  -- Joanne Howard, Diane Howard, Ebbin Dotson; title: Role of leisure in humanizing learning cities  -- Dan K. Hibbler, Leodis Scott; title: Learning cities for all: directions to a new adult education and learning movement -- Leodis Scott.