Learning Communities and Imagined Social Capital: Learning to Belong

by Jocey Quinn

Book Overview

This volume critically explores themes of belonging, learning and community, drawing on a range of research studies conducted with adult learners in formal and informal contexts and employing interdisciplinary theory from education, feminist theory, cultural studies and human geography. Dominant but simplistic and regulatory ideas and practices of learning community in higher education and lifelong learning are critiqued. Instead, Jocey Quinn argues...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1441124209
• ISBN13: 9781441124203
• Release Date: December 2011
• Publisher: Continuum
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"