TY - BOOK ID - 77900000 TI - Changing places? PY - 1997 SN - 1134741626 1280327871 0203132025 9780203132029 0415153395 0415153409 9786610327874 6610327874 9780415153393 0415153395 9780415153409 0415153409 9781134741571 9781134741618 9781134741625 1134741618 1902031059 9781280327872 PB - London New York Routledge DB - UniCat KW - Continuing education KW - Adult education KW - Postmodernism and education KW - Distance education KW - Open learning KW - Flexible learning KW - Flexistudy KW - Self-supported study KW - Learning KW - Independent study KW - Self-culture KW - Distance learning KW - Education KW - Telecommunication in education KW - Education and postmodernism KW - Adults, Education of KW - Education of adults KW - Lifelong education KW - Lifelong learning KW - Permanent education KW - Recurrent education KW - Social aspects UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77900000 AB - Flexibility has become a central concept in much policy and academic debate. Individuals, organizations and societies are all required to become more flexible so that they can participate in the ongoing processes of change involved in lifelong learning. This book explores how the notion of a learning society has developed over recent years: the changes that have given rise to the requirement for flexibility, and the changed discourses and practices that have emerged in the education and training of adults. With the growth in interest in adults as learners, (primarily to support economic competitiveness), the closed field of adult education has now been displaced by a more open discourse of lifelong learning. This involves not only changing practices such as moving towards open and distance-based learning, but also changing workplace identities. Learning settings are therefore changing places in a number of senses: they are places in which people change; they are subject to change; and they are changing to include the home and workplace as well as more formal settings. This book takes an unusually critical standpoint: it challenges contemporary trends, explores the uncertainties and ambivalences of the processes of change, and is suggestive of different forms of engagement with them. It will prove an important text for policy makers, workplace trainers and those working in the field of adult, further and higher education. Richard Edwards is currently a Senior Lecturer in post compulsory education at the Open University. ER -