Second International Handbook of Lifelong Learning / Springer International Handbooks of Education Bd.26 (PDF)

DAVID ASPIN is Emeritus Professor of Education, School of Graduate Studies, and formerly Dean of the Faculty of Education, Monash University, Australia. Prior to this he was Professor of Philosophy of Education at King's College London and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Philosophy of Education in the Institute of Education, both in the University of London. With Judith Chapman he is co-author of the publication The School, the Community and Lifelong Learning (London: Cassell 1997) and, with Judith Chapman, Michael Hatton and Yukiko Sawano, co-editor of the International Handbook on Lifelong Learning (Dordrecht: Kluwer 2001). In 1999 he was awarded a Visiting Fellowship at the International Studies Center of the Rockefeller Foundation in Bellagio, Como, Italy; in 2004 was appointed a Visiting Professor at the Nottingham University. In 2007 he was elected a Visiting Fellow at St Edmund's College Cambridge. In 2006 he was editor of two volumes in the Springer Press "Lifelong Learning" series - Philosophical Perspectives on Lifelong Learning, and (with Judith Chapman) Values Education and Lifelong Learning. His current research centres on lifelong learning, principally its epistemological, mental and methodological aspects; and on values and values education, principally their normative conclusions and meta-ethical aspects. JUDITH D CHAPMAN AM is Professor of Education and formerly Dean of the Faculty of Education at Australian Catholic University. Judith was formerly Professor of Education Associate Dean (Teaching and Learning) of the combined faculties of Economics, Commerce, Education and Law at the University of Western Australia and Director of the School Decision-making and Management Centre at Monash University in Australia. KAREN EVANS is Professor of Education ( Lifelong Learning) at the Institute of Education, University of London, where she was formerly Head of the School of Lifelong Education and International Development. Her main research interests