Promoting, assessing, recognizing and certifying lifelong learning: international perspectives and practices

Part I Promoting and recognising lifelong learning: Key concepts, practices and emerging and perennial problems

Promoting and recognising lifelong learning: Introduction / Timo Halttunen, Mari Koivisto, and Stephen Billett

Conceptualising lifelong learning in contemporary times / Stephen Billett

New skills for new jobs: Work agency as a necessary condition for successful lifelong learning / Christian Harteis and Michael Goller

Part II Promoting lifelong learning for economic, social and cultural purposes

Evaluating informal learning in the workplace / Karen E. Watkins, Victoria J. Marsick, and Miren Fernández de Álava

Recognising learning and development in the transaction of personal work practices / Raymond Smith

Understanding work-related learning: The role of job characteristics and the use of different sources of learning / David Gijbels, Vincent Donche, Piet Van den Bossche, Ingrid Ilsbroux, and Eva Sammels

Experiential learning: A new higher education requiring new pedagogic skills / Anita Walsh

How expertise is created in emerging professional fields / Tuire Palonen, Henny P. A. Boshuizen, and Erno Lehtinen

Continuing education and training at work / Sarojni Choy, Raymond Smith, and Ann Kelly

Lifelong learning policies and practices in Singapore: Tensions and challenges / Helen Bound, Magdalene Lin, and Peter Rushbrook

Part III Recognising and certifying lifelong learning: Policies and practices

Professionalisation of supervisors and RPL / Timo Halttunen and Mari Koivisto

Securing assessors' professionalism: Meeting assessor requirements for the purpose of performing high-quality (RPL) assessments / Antoinette van Berkel

Problems and possibilities in recognition of prior learning: A critical social theory perspective / Fredrik Sandberg

Changing RPL and HRD discourses: Practitioner perspectives / Anne Murphy, Oran Doherty, and Kate Collins

French approaches to accreditation of prior learning: Practices and research / Vanessa Rémery and Vincent Merle

Recognising and certifying workers' knowledge: Policies, frameworks and practices in prospect: Perspectives from two countries / Stephen Billett, Helen Bound, and Magdalene Lin.