
Schools and Informal Learning in a Knowledge-Based World
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Some contributors to this book reflect on how new educational systems could be created in a move away from top-down authoritarian and bureaucratic management. Such open systems are seen to be more welcoming in acknowledging the importance of informal learning. Others provide practical examples of how informal learning is currently recognized. Some attention is also paid to the evaluation of informal learning. A key objective of the work presented here is to stimulate debate about the role of informal learning in knowledge-based societies and to stimulate thinking about the kind of reforms needed to create more open and more democratic school learning environments.
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'This book adds to our understanding of the role of informal learning as a critical contributor to the future of schooling in a wired global context. The authors show how informal learning deepens and broadens what is learned formally and also contributes to student growth and development while helping solve local and global challenges.' - Karen E. Watkins, Professor and Associate Department Head, Department of Lifelong Education, Administration, and Policy (Adult Education, Learning and Organization), The University of Georgia, USA "This book adds to our understanding of the role of informal learning as a criticalcontributor to the future of schooling in a wired global context. The authors show how
informal learning deepens and broadens what is learned formally and also contributes to
student growth and development while helping solve local and global challenges."
Karen E. Watkins, The University of Georgia
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Kerry J. Kennedy is a Professor Emeritus, Advisor (Academic Development) and Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Governance and Citizenship at The Education University of Hong Kong. He is also a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Johannesburg.
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Contributors
1.Towards a new educational contract (JAVIER CALVO DE MORA)
PART I. Schools and Informal Learning: Shaping the Future
2. What we really learn in school? (ROGER C SCHANK)
3. Exploring the foundations of informal learning (JUDITH LLOYD YERO)
4. Inventing a public education system for the 21st Century (JOHN H. FALK)
5. The relationship between formal and informal learning (DANIEL A. TILLMAN, SONG A. AN AND WILLIAM H. ROBERTSON)
PART II. Case Studies of Informal Leaning's Potential
6. Asian students' informal civic learning: Can it enhance civic knowledge and values? (KERRY J KENNEDY and XIAOXUE KUANG)
7. The Shanghai model for global geography education (OSVALDO MUNIZ SOLARI and LIANFEI JIANG)
8. Academic family and educational Compadrazgo: Implementing cultural values to create educational relationships for informal learning and persistence for Latinx undergraduates (ALBERTA M. GLORIA, JEANETT CASTELLANOS, MARY DUENAS, & VERONICA FRANCO)
9. Formal-informal, exclusion-inclusion: An empirical investigation of Swedish music education (CECILIA WALLERSTEDT )
PART III. Informal learning as lifelong learning and its evaluation
10. Governance of informal learning as a pathway for the development of young adults' agency for sustainability (VALERIJS MAKEREVICS & DZINTRA ILISKO)
11. Integrating formal and informal learning to develop self-management skills: Challenges and opportunities for higher education in the university-to-work transition (AMELIA MANUTI)
12. Informal learning assessment (JAVIER CALVO DE MORA)
13. Is an "avant-garde" assessment? The certification of competencies in the Italian higher education system (SERAFINA PASTORE)
14. Conclusion: Open schools and shared responsibilities: Integrating informal and formal learning in 21st-century schools (JAVIER CALVO DE MORA and KERRY J KENNEDY)
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