Informal Learning in the Community: A Trigger for Change and Development - Softcover

McGivney, Veronica

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1862010730 ISBN 13: 9781862010734

Verlag: National Institute of Adult Continuing Education, 1999

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In order to promote lifelong learning we need to give greater recognition and value to the huge variety of informal learning that is conducted in community settings. This report is based on a short DfEE-funded study designed to explore the role of community-based informal learning in widening participation and starting people on a learning pathway. The study involved an extensive literature search, consultation with relevant organisations and individuals, with visits to a small sample of organisations and locations providing community-based learning activities. The study show that informal learning plays a crucial role in starting people on a learning pathway. It also identifies the kinds of services, structures and conditions needed to develop learning pathways and encourage people to make the transition from informal to more formal, structured and accredited learning. However, it highlights the fact that educational progression, albeit a desirable outcome, is not necessarily the most important benefit of informal learning: the benefits to individuals, families and communities may be far more wide-ranging. The big question is how to demonstrate that value and convince policy-makers and funders that informal learning is something worthy of greater investment, not only in the interests of lifelong learning but also in the interests of community regeneration and helping excluded groups to develop their potential

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'...may be read as an extended answer to the question posed in the recent White Paper, as to ways in which improvements in the delivery of adult learning can be secure.' - (Reportback)

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• Verlag: National Institute of Adult Continuing Education
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• ISBN 10: 1862010730
• ISBN 13: 9781862010734
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 112