Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

This engaging book sheds light on the ways in which adults in the twenty-first century interact with technology in different learning environments. Based on one of the first large-scale academic research projects in this area, the authors present their findings and offer practical recommendations for the use of new technology in a learning society. They invite debate on:

Adult Learning addresses key questions and provides a sound empirical foundation to the existing debate, highlighting the complex realities of the learning society and e-learning rhetoric. It tells the story of those who are excluded from the learning society, and offers a set of strong recommendations for practitioners, policy-makers, and politicians, as well as researchers and students.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• List of illustrations (p. vi)
• Preface (p. viii)
• Acknowledgements (p. xvi)
• List of abbreviations (p. xvii)
• 1 The promise of adult learning in the digital age (p. 1)
• 2 Impediments to adult learning in the digital age (p. 19)
• 3 Questioning adult learning in the digital age: research questions and methods (p. 35)
• 4 What makes a lifelong learner? (p. 60)
• 5 What do people use ICTs for? (p. 81)
• 6 Adult learning with ICTs in the home (p. 103)
• 7 Bringing ICTs home: the influence of the workplace (p. 122)
• 8 Adult learning with ICTs in public and community settings (p. 139)
• 9 The social processes of learning to use computers (p. 161)
• 10 Making sense of adult learning in a digital age (p. 173)
• 11 Recommendations for future policy, practice and research (p. 190)
• References (p. 205)
• Author index (p. 221)