Learning Communities and Imagined Social
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- Price
- R 554
- RRP
R 710- (-22%)
Product Details
- Barcode
- 9781441124203
- Department
- Books
- Supply Source
- South Africa
Book
- Binding
- Paperback / softback
- Publisher
- Continuum Publishing Corporation
- Language
- English
- Number of Pages
- 172
- Dimensions
- 234 x 156 x 9mm (251g)
Summary
- This volume critically explores themes of belonging, learning and community, drawing on a range of research studies conducted with adult learners in formal and informal contexts and employing interdisciplinary theory from education, feminist theory, cultural studies and human geography. Dominant but simplistic and regulatory ideas and practices of learning community in higher education and lifelong learning are critiqued. Instead, Jocey Quinn argues that learners gain most benefit from creating their own symbolic communities and networks, which help to produce imagined social capital. A rich variety of empirical data is used to explore and demonstrate how such imagined social capital works.
Classification
- General Subject
- Education
- BISAC Subject 1
- Education / Organizations & Institutions
- BISAC Subject 2
- Education / Research
- BISAC Subject 3
- Education / Adult & Continuing Education
- BISAC Subject 4
- Education / Adult & Continuing Education
- BIC Classification 1
- Adult education, continuous learning
- BIC Classification 2
- Organization & management of education
- Library Subject 1
- Social capital (Sociology)
- Library Subject 2
- Adult education - Great Britain
- Dewey Classification
- 371.2
Author Bio
Jocey Quinn is Professor of Education at the University of
Plymouth, UK, and former Professor at the Institute for Policy
Studies in Education at London Metropolitan University, UK. She is
also Visiting Professor at the University of Exeter, UK.
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