Adult Learning in the Digital Age: Information Technology and the Learning Society

Adult Learning in the Digital Age: Information Technology and the Learning Society
ISBN-10
1134248954
ISBN-13
9781134248957
Category
Education
Pages
248
Language
English
Published
2006-03-22
Publisher
Routledge
Authors
John Furlong, Stephen Gorard, Neil Selwyn

Description

This engaging book sheds light on the ways in which adults in the twenty-first century interact with technology in different learning environments. Based on one of the first large-scale academic research projects in this area, the authors present their findings and offer practical recommendations for the use of new technology in a learning society. They invite debate on: why ICTs are believed to be capable of affecting positive change in adult learning the drawbacks and limits of ICT in adult education what makes a lifelong learner the wider social, economic, cultural and political realities of the information age and the learning society. Adult Learning addresses key questions and provides a sound empirical foundation to the existing debate, highlighting the complex realities of the learning society and e-learning rhetoric. It tells the story of those who are excluded from the learning society, and offers a set of strong recommendations for practitioners, policy-makers, and politicians, as well as researchers and students.

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