DOCUMENT RESUME ED 465 027 CE 083 247 AUTHOR Luciani, Teresa . TITLE Second NALL Bibliography on Informal and Non-Formal Learning. NALL Working Paper. INSTITUTION Ontario Inst. for Studies in Education, Toronto. New Approaches to Lifelong Learning. SPONS AGENCY Social.Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Ottawa (Ontario). REPORT NO NALL-WP-48-2001 PUB DATE 2001-09-00 NOTE 121p. AVAILABLE FROM For full text: http://www.oise.utoronto.ca/depts/sese/csew/nall/res/48 TracyLuciani.pdf. PUB TYPE Reference Materials Bibliographies (131) EDRS PRICE MF01/PC05 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS Active Learning; Adult Education; *Adult Learning; Associative Learning; Aural Learning; Bibliographies; Computer Uses in Education; Cooperative Learning; Discovery Learning; Discrimination Learning; *Education Work Relationship; Educational Research; Ethnography; Experiential Learning; Incidental Learning; Independent Study; Indigenous Populations; Industrial Education; *Informal Education; Intentional Learning; *Labor Education; Learning Theories; Lifelong Learning; Mastery Learning; Multisensory Learning; *Nonformal Education; Nonverbal Learning; Observational Learning; *Prior Learning; Resistance (Psychology); Rote Learning; Second Language Learning; Sequential Learning; Serial Learning; Symbolic Learning; Verbal Learning; Visual Learning IDENTIFIERS *Work Based Learning ABSTRACT This bibliography with 1,273 entries is an updated supplement to the preliminary 1997 bibliography on informal adult learning. It is a useful resource guide for those interested in publications (e.g. academic papers, government reports, grassroots publications) aimed at furthering understanding of how learning and teaching takes place in different settings (specifically, informal and non-formal environments) .The guide also lists resources that address how the different ways that learning and teaching exist in various learning environments can be valued and supported. Introductory materials include bibliography sources and search terms. Entries are grouped into these seven categories:(1) general (overviews, definitions and conceptual distinctions, theories of learning, conceptual factors/histories, research methods and standpoint of researchers);(2) surveys/ethnographies;(3) learning power and action in resisting communities; transitions between learning and work (youth, higher education, seniors, learning and work mismatches) ;(4) learning in the workplace (general; corporations, management, professionals; workers; other work sites);(5) union-based learning;(6) informal learning and technology; and (7) prior learning assessment and recognition.(YLB) Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document. 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Points of view or opinions stated in this TO THE EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES document do not necessarily represent INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC) official OERI position or policy. 1 SECOND NALL BIBLIOGRAPHY ON INFORMAL AND NON-FORMAL LEARNING Prepared by Teresa Luciani Department of Adult Education, Community Development and Counselling Psychology, OISE/UT September, 2001 A Paper in the Working Paper Series of the SSHRC-funded research network on New Approaches to Lifelong Learning (NALL), Department of Sociology and Equity Studies, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto (OISE/UT). BESICOPY AVAILABLE TABLE OF CONTENTS SECTION PAGES PREFACE Bibliography Search Terms NALL Working Papers iv 1. General 1 1.1 Overviews 1 1.2 Definitions/Conceptual Distinctions 11 1.3 Theories of Learning 12 1.4 Conceptual Factors/Histories 16 1.5 Research Methods/Standpoint of Researchers 24 2. SURVEYS/ETHNOGRAPHIES 26 2.1 Surveys 26 2.2 Ethnographies 29 3. Learning Power and Action in Resisting Communities Page 36 of 112 4. Transitions between learning and work Page 43 of 112 4.1 Youth Page 43 of 112 4.2 Higher Education Page 50 of 112 4.3 Seniors Page 53 of 112 4.4 Learning and work mismatches Page 56 of 112 Page 60 of 112 5. Learning in the workplace Page 61 of 112 5.1 General Page 61 of 112 5.2 Corporations, management, professionals Page 75 of 112 5.3 Workers Page 78 of 112 5.4 Other work sites (NG0s, household work, unpaid work, community work, volunteer work) Page 82 of 112 5.5 Union-based Learning Page 89 of 112 6. Informal learning and technology Page 94 of 112 6.1 Informal learning and technology Page 94 of 112 7. PLAR Page 97 of 112 7.1 Prior learning assessment and recognition Page 97 of 112 3 PREFACE One of the objectives of the research network on SSHRC-funded New Approaches to Lifelong Learning (NALL) has been to document the full array of adult learning activities including informal learning. An important aspect of this task has been a continuing review of the relevant research literature. The preliminary NALL bibliography was prepared in 1997 by Matt Adams et al and published as the first paper in this series (see NALL Working Paper Number 1). This second bibliography is intended as an updated supplement. It should be useful as a resource guide for anyone interestedinpublications from academic papers,togovernment reports,tograssroots publications aimed at furthering understanding of how we learn and teach in different settings, specifically informal and non-formal environments, and of how we can value and support the different ways in which we learn and teach in multiple learning environments. As information technology advances, our collective ability to access relevant sources of information increases accordingly. Our second time around, the search terms broadened and we tried to locate relevant sources from a wider variety of databases available to anyone with an internet connection, as well as some databases only accessible to those with university connections. The 'url or address of each database is listed under the Bibliographic Sources and Search Terms section. Teresa (Tracy) Luciani deserves full credit for carrying out this complex search and compiling the second NALL bibliography. We have tried to locate resources that refer to informal and non-formal learning in a variety of learning environments, historical moments, locations, communities and perspectives, as well a variety of data, research methods and forms of representation. Search terms used to locate resources overlap in most databases used, with some more detailed than others. Some of the items listed do not include explicit reference to informal or non-formal learning in their titles but do at least touch on these aspects of learning in the full texts. This bibliography starts where our last bibliography left off, September 1997, and ends in the Summer of 2001. This resource guide itemizes both general theoretical and methodological works and those dealing with a variety of specific themes including learning in different workplaces, transitions, union-based learning, the impact of technology, and prior learning assessment and recognition. In light of the rapidly expanding scope of this field of study, the most useful information may prove to be the bibliographic sources and search terms themselves. Readers are encouraged to use these resources to conduct their own continuing searches. Anyone interested in this field may discover among the sources listed below, other researchers, not-for profit and for-profit organizations, government departments and people interested in informal and non-formal learning who engage with similar issues, as well as new issues that raise challenging questions, and open up possibilities for social change The NALL web site, http://www.nall.ca provides downloadable copies of Working Papers from most of the completed NALL research projects. While the original SSHRC project will conclude within a few months, both this site and the related research program will remain active for at least the next decade under the rubric of the Centre for the Study of Education and Work (CSEW) at OISE/UT. Related project reports will be added periodically. Any comments on this bibliography should be directed to: dlivingstoneoi se. utoronto. ca David W. Livingstone, Director of NALL and Head, CSEW March, 2002 4 Bibliography Sources and Search Terms UMI Pro Quest Digital Dissertations, 1997-2001 Aug http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/ With more than 1.6 million entries, the Dissertation Abstracts database is the single, authoritative source for information about doctoral dissertations and master's theses. The database represents the work of authors from over 1,000 graduate schools and universities. We add some 47,000 new dissertations and 12,000 new theses to the database each year. Available only through institutions, like the University of Toronto, who subscribe to ProQuest Digital Dissertations, which allows you online access to citations and abstracts for every, title in the Dissertation Abstracts database. Titles published since 1997 are available in PDF digital format and have 24 page previews available. Some dissertations can be downloaded or purchased from UMI. Keyword Searches formal education informal education nonformal education self-directed education formal learning informal learning nonformal learning self-directed learning aboriginal