Has lifelong learning had its day?

Professor John Field, University of Stirling

19 December 2006 10am -12.30pm Cost: free

Professor Field discussed changes in the area of lifelong learning since the late 1990s, exploring the challenges to the vision of lifelong learning which include funding and content issues and considered these in conjunction with the growth in self-governed learning, and contrasted with the increased regulation of people's learning lives. Factors involved in helping to create and perpetuate unequal participation in different types of learning were identified.

Biography

Professor Field is currently serving as the University’s Deputy Principal (Research). He joined Stirling in 2002. Within DAICE, Professor Field teaches an introduction to the social sciences on the Centre's Access Course and is Associate Director for ESCalate (the national subject centre for educational studies). He also leads the Learning Lives project funded by the ESRC examining the meaning and significance of formal and informal learning in the lives of adults, and aims to identify ways in which the learning of adults can be supported and enhanced. Externally, Professor Field is a member of the governing body for Newbattle Abbey College and a Visiting Professor of Birkbeck College, University of London.

Materials from the Seminar