التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
| العنوان: |
Exploring the Icebergs of Adult Learning: Findings of the First Canadian Survey of Informal Learning Practice. Retrieved December 5, 2002, from http://oise.utoronto.ca/depts/sese/csew/nall/res/10exploring.htm |
| المؤلفون: |
D. W. Livingstone |
| المساهمون: |
The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives |
| المصدر: |
https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/bitstream/1807/2724/2/10exploring.pdf. |
| سنة النشر: |
1999 |
| المجموعة: |
CiteSeerX |
| الوصف: |
This paper provides empirical estimates of the extent and distribution of self-reported learning activities in the current Canadian adult population, based on a recent country-wide survey, and briefly addresses some implications of these adult learning patterns. The basic finding from the survey is that most Canadian adults are spending a great deal and increasing amount of time in learning activities, most of this in informal learning on their own. The major implications are that Canada is already and increasingly a knowledge society in any reasonable sense of the term and that Canadian adults ’ mostly informal learning practices should more explicitly be taken into account in shaping educational, economic and other social policies; adult educators should take this detectable informal learning into greater account to develop more responsive further education opportunities. There is a great deal of talk these days about living in the "information age", the "knowledge society " or the "learning society. " The study described in this article indicates that adults in Canada now spend an average of 15 hours per week on informal learning. In light of this finding, if the crews of our big education and training ships do not increasingly look out for the massive, detectable icebergs of informal learning, many of their programs may sink into Titanic irrelevancy. However, before the survey findings are presented, informal learning should be distinguished from other basic sites of adult learning and the difficulties involved in studying informal learning should be identified. The Informal-Learning-Research Context |
| نوع الوثيقة: |
text |
| وصف الملف: |
application/pdf |
| اللغة: |
English |
| Relation: |
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.594.2582 |
| الاتاحة: |
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.594.2582 |
| Rights: |
Metadata may be used without restrictions as long as the oai identifier remains attached to it. |
| رقم الانضمام: |
edsbas.63B80003 |
| قاعدة البيانات: |
BASE |