Lifelong learning in Hodges' model

I've lost count of the visits to Hay-on-Wye, most recently last week. Sadly none have coincided with the literature festival (thus far). Three full days arriving at 0815, a coffee at Angie's cafe to start. 

In searching for 'evidence' to support Hodges' model I am clearly biased in terms of what I will find. Brent Hayward's paper and exchanges on twitter prompt the realisation there is much to define. The axes, the respective care - knowledge domains, career, health career, the center of the model, education and more. I have 6,000 words on what could be thought of as a 'manual'. Nobody, can say "Read the ****** manual!" if none exists, beyond Brian Hodges' course notes. 

So I've been picking up a few textbooks. Despite being a little dated (and so familiar) I'm sure these sources can help place Hodges' model on a more concrete footing. At least reveal what schools of thoughts and ideas Hodges' model can claim as a foundation and support. The shelves of several shops were well served with lifelong learning and so here are some points of note, beginning with interpretations of 'learning'.

• Behaviourist approach
• Gestalt
• Cognitive - constructivist 
• Humanist
  

The plastic space that it is, Hodges' model can be used with any of these, as with proposals for pedagogy and andragogy (chap. 2) and the identities associated with the social nature of 'learner identity' in education.

individual

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INTERPERSONAL : SCIENCES

humanistic ----------------------------------------------- mechanistic

SOCIOLOGY : POLITICAL

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group - population

Situational awareness: 1. the safety perspective 2. the personal perspective of knowing what learning opportunities are available. p.56. Continuous professional development intrinsic-extrinsic motivation, p.84. 'Sociological imagination' pp.19-21. Use of Hodges' model allied with multiple literacies to further lifelong and personalised learning (tertiary+)?

Definition of lifelong learning is, arguably, impossible. p.9. Learning activity through life. p.10 Relation of: concept of 'career' Health career as Life chances Age as chronology and pathology Primary Courseware - created to present subject matter. Subject matter experts (content) design and programmed by courseware specialists. Secondary Courseware - describes the environment and set of tools by which the learner performs learning tasks, and the tasks (and task materials) themselves. p.138.

History of lifelong learning 18th century (Yeaxlee, 1929). 2nd chance learning Lifelong learning for social change. Age as a social construct Bourdieu 'capital' power (chap. 3) Social and Cultural (capital) Teriary Courseware - material prodcued by learners, p.138.

"Lifelong learning has experienced a political transformation from one that held a humanistic radical approach to education to one with a focus upon economy, skills and and vocationalism, and this transformation can be seen in the policy discourse associated with lifelong learning." p.9. Lifelong learning "a means of achieving instrumental (economic) values..." p.9. Continuous professional development (governance of..) Economic or Human (capital) identity narratives and identity politics - caring relations, p.19

 

O'Grady, A. (2013) Lifelong Learning in the UK, London: Routledge

Morgan-Klein, B., & Osborne, M. (2007). The Concepts and Practices of Lifelong Learning. London: Routledge. (chapter 2, Learning through the life course ...)