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Record Nr.

UNINA9910821350303321

Titolo

Constructing capacities : building capabilities through learning and engagement / / edited by Patrick Alan Danaher ... [et al.]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle upon Tyne, : Cambridge Scholars Pub., c2012

ISBN

1-4438-4637-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (306 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

DanaherPatrick Alan <1959->

Disciplina

370.11

Soggetti

Education - Aims and objectives

Teaching

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

TABLE OF CONTENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; LIST OF TABLES; FOREWORD; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; PART I; PART I INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; PART II; PART II INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; PART III; PART III INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER EIGHT; CHAPTER NINE; CHAPTER TEN; PART IV; PART IV INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ELEVEN; CHAPTER TWELVE; CHAPTER THIRTEEN; CHAPTER FOURTEEN; EPILOGUE; CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

Constructing Capacities: Building Capabilities through Learning and Engagement explores several contemporary manifestations of individuals, groups and communities participating in varying types of learning and thereby engaging effectively and productively with their contexts and environments in order to build and develop their multiple capacities. These capacities are seen as crucial to overcoming particular kinds of challenges and to attaining specific types of aspirations that are valued hi...