Beyond Schools

Author:

Horace B. Reed & Elizabeth Lee Loughran (Eds.)

Title:

Beyond Schools. Education for Economic, Social, and Personal Development

Year of Publication:

1984

Price:

$ 15.00

Education occurring after graduateion is as important to both individuals ans society as is schooling. Beyond Schools presents a rich variety of case studies varying from a boat building apprenticeship program in Maine to Alcoholics Anonymous, from a rural development project in Sri Lanka to quality circles in the United States, from a solar greenhouse project to a crisis hot line program. More importantly the book presents a conceptual framework which enables the reader to see the relationship among the varied approaches.

It was through the gradual development of the Lifelong Learning Scale, presented in chart form in the book, that the authors began to develop a diagnostic tool enabling practitioners to explore a wide variety of educational settings and to make extremely useful comparisons across fields. The analytical framework presented in Beyond Schools helps to translate the many languages used by trainers, consultants, counselors, and teachers in different work settings into a common set of questions, making dialogue, mutual learning, and linkages across fields more probable