Overview
- Reveals and foregrounds the social dimensions of sustainable development
- Explores how such social sustainability might be fostered through adult and vocational education in formal and community learning settings
- Showcases educational agendas for social sustainability in a range of different countries
- Contains practical applications for social sustainability education in a range of different fields, such as vocational education, health education, conflict resolution, youth education
Part of the book series: Technical and Vocational Education and Training: Issues, Concerns and Prospects (TVET, volume 9)
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Table of contents (20 chapters)
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Introduction: Challenges in Adult and Vocational Education for Social Sustainability
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Social Sustainability Perspectives in Adult and Vocational Education
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Foundations for Social Sustainability in Adult and Vocational Education
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Creating Spaces for Social Sustainability in Adult and Vocational Education
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Adult and Vocational Education for Social Sustainability in Action
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Rethinking Work and Learning
Book Subtitle: Adult and Vocational Education for Social Sustainability
Editors: Peter Willis, Stephen Mckenzie, Roger Harris
Series Title: Technical and Vocational Education and Training: Issues, Concerns and Prospects
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8964-0
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2009
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-8963-3Published: 02 February 2009
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-8037-0Published: 28 October 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-8964-0Published: 02 November 2008
Series ISSN: 1871-3041
Series E-ISSN: 2213-221X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIV, 274