Informal learning : A discussion around defining and researching its breadth and importance

Title: Informal learning : A discussion around defining and researching its breadth and importance
Creator: Golding, Barry; Brown, Michael; Foley, Annette
Date: 2009
Type: Text; Journal article
Identifier: http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/54627
Identifier: vital:2102
Identifier: ISSN:1443-1394
Abstract: Informal learning has often been seen as formal learning's 'poor cousin'. Our paper explores and discusses new and different ways of thinking about defining, valuing and researching the breadth and importance of informal learning in diverse national and cultural contexts. This includes a consideration of the power relations that can act to devalue informal learning. It is underpinned by a recognition that not only do a relatively small proportion of adults currently engage informal learning, but those who do tend already to be dedicated and successful lifelong learners. It leads to a discussion about how informal learning might be framed as part of the solution to adult exclusion, seen to be aggravated by unnecessary adult educational hierarchies, accreditation, assessment and formality.
Relation: Australian Journal of Adult Learning Vol. 49, no. 1 (2009), p. 34-56
Rights: Copyright Adult Learning Australia
Rights: Open Access
Rights: This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
Subject: Informal learning; Adult learning; Diverse national and cultural contexts
Full Text
Reviewed

		Thumbnail	File	Description	Size	Format
View Details Download			DS1	Published version	188 KB	Adobe Acrobat PDF	View Details Download