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"The Benefits of Learning" is a detailed, systematic, and vivid account of the impact of formal and informal education on people's lives. Based on extended interviews with adults of all ages, it shows how learning affects their health, family lives, and participation in civic life, revealing the downsides of education as well as the benefits. Full of detail from adults' own accounts of their lives, the book reveals how learning enables people to sustain themselves and their communities in the face of daily stresses and strains, as well as sometimes transforming their lives.
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Produktbeschreibung
"The Benefits of Learning" is a detailed, systematic, and vivid account of the impact of formal and informal education on people's lives. Based on extended interviews with adults of all ages, it shows how learning affects their health, family lives, and participation in civic life, revealing the downsides of education as well as the benefits. Full of detail from adults' own accounts of their lives, the book reveals how learning enables people to sustain themselves and their communities in the face of daily stresses and strains, as well as sometimes transforming their lives.
Presenting the findings of the first large scale study on the social consequences of participation in various forms of adult and lifelong learning, this book investigates the relationships between education and key social concerns such as health.
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Autorenporträt
The authors are all members of the Centre for Research on the Wider Benefits of Learning, University of London.