Problems in Price Theory

Osborne, Michael

De Meza, David

Business & Money

Univ of Chicago Pr

The Concepts and Practices of Lifelong Learning

This textbook gives a wide-ranging, research-informed introduction to issues in lifelong learning across a variety of educational settings and practices. Its very accessible approach is multi-disciplinary drawing on sociology and psychology in particular. In addition, issues are discussed within an international context. While there has been a proliferation of texts focussing on particular areas of practice such as higher education, there is little in the way of a broad overview. Chapters one to four introduce various conceptions of lifelong learning, the factors that impinge on learning through the life course, and the social and the economic rationale for lifelong learning. Chapters five-ten consider the varied sites of lifelong learning, from the micro to macro (from the home to the region to the virtual). Chapter eleven draws the strands together in the context of turbulence and continuing transition in personal and work roles, and against the background of future technological development. This timely overview will be relevant to education and training professionals, education studies students and the general reader.

Politics & Social Sciences

Morgan-Klein, Brenda

Social Sciences

Routledge

Improving What is Learned at University (Improving Learning)

Received the ‘highly commended’ award by the Society for Educational Studies for books published in 2010. What is learned in universities today? Is it what students expect to learn? Is it what universities say they learn? How far do the answers to questions such as these differ according to what, where and how one studies?  As higher education has expanded, it has diversified both in terms of its institutional forms and the characteristics of its students. However, what we do not know is the extent to which it has also diversified in terms of ‘what is learned’. In this book, the authors explore this question through the voices of higher education students, using empirical data from students taking 15 different courses at different universities across three subject areas – bioscience, business studies and sociology. The study concentrates on the students’ experiences, lives, hopes and aspirations while at university through data from interviews and questionnaires, and this is collated and assessed alongside the perspectives of their teachers and official data from the universities they attend.  Through this study the authors provide insights into ‘what is really learned at university’ and how much it differs between individual students and the universities they attend. Notions of ‘best’ or ‘top’ universities are challenged throughout, and both diversities and commonalities of being a student are demonstrated. Posing important questions for higher education institutions about the experiences of their students and the consequences for graduates and society, this book is compelling reading for all those involved in higher education, providing conclusions which do not always follow conventional lines of thought about diversity and difference in UK higher education.

Improving What is Learned at University: An Exploration of the Social and Organisational Diversity of University Education (Improving Learning)

BRENNAN, JOHN

Lebeau, Yann

Richardson, John T.E.

Jary, David

Edmunds, Robert

Houston, Muir

Members of the Strang Cancer Prevention Center, affiliated with The New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, outline an exercise program and a low-fat, high-fiber, nutrient-rich diet to reduce the risk of cancer featuring 150 gourmet recipes. 22,500 first printing.

The Strang Cookbook for Cancer Prevention: A Complete Nutrition and Lifestyle Plan to Dramatically Lower Your Cancer Risk

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Pensiero, Laura

Oliviera, Susan

Special Diet

Dutton Adult

Granite Water and Light: Waterfalls of Yosemite Valley

Sports & Outdoors

Yosemite Assn

OZ A Battle in Atlanta

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

Leavitt Peak Press

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