Learning through networks

A new book focuses on adult learning and how it should serve for the personal fulfilment, social inclusion and active citizenship and employability of individuals in a knowledge based society.

Learning through Networks: Reflections on Creating Joyful Learning Experiences, edited by Frank Fabri (Malta) and Kevin Harrington (Ireland) is intended to exhibit how these challenges are being addressed in real contexts.

The chapters reflect current knowledge about adult learners and learning and provide a series of accounts on how each educational institution within the network facilitated adult learning and training in relation to the Key Competences Framework (EC, 2005).

The book provides narra-tive accounts on the network development and project implementation using vignettes, testimonials and case studies to help explain how in practice the key competences, which are multifunctional, transferable and pre-requisites, are being addressed in a variety of ways for successful life in a knowledge society. This publication provides both a framework for key competences in a knowledge-based society and a framework for joyful adult learning.

It is essentially an evidence-based publication about adult learning and training providing anecdotes about different strategies and techniques that motivate adults to learn in different scenarios within a variety of educational institutions involved in the network from Ireland, Germany, Spain, Malta, Czech Republic, Romania and Turkey.