Introduction
Section 1 - Policy - Practice - Research
Chapter 1: Cultivating a culture of practitioner research in university lifelong learning: some critical reflections
Josephine W. Finn
Chapter 2: Research-practice partnership: improving links between research and professional practice in lifelong learning
Franz Kolland, Marcus Ludescher and Andrea Waxenegger
Section 2 - Engaging with business and industry
Chapter 3: Alumni of vocational education as a new target group for university continuing education - chance and challenge for universities
Stefan Brämer and Sören Hirsch
Chapter 4: ULLL in the business context - the project Virtual interaction with Web 2.0 in companies
Marion Bruhn-Suhr and Lena Oswald
Chapter 5: Lifelong learning and the Knowledge Triangle in the context of university reform. A case study
Kirsti Miettinen and Hanna-Riikka Myllymäki
Chapter 6: Perceived service value: implications for the viability of continuing education programmes
Susan Geertshuis and Otto Krickl
Chapter 7: Opening universities for lifelong learning and the challenge of diversity management: support of non-traditional students in Germany, Finland and Denmark
Sabine Remdisch and Steffen Beiten
Section 3 - Engaging with communities
Chapter 8: When university meets community in later life: subverting hegemonic discourse and practices in higher education
Carmel Borg and Marvin Formosa
Chapter 9: Types and Conditions of service learning: associations with civic responsibility, self-efficacy, and well-being
Jenifer K. McGuire and Melanie Brown
Chapter 10: Community-based education and learning
Lyn Tett
Chapter 11: Lifelong learning for socially disadvantaged people
Gerhild Wrann
Section 4 - Engaging with an ageing society
Chapter 12: Learning in later life: what can universities do?
Alex Withnall
Chapter 13: Intergenerational learning at the university: potentials and limitations
Bernhard Schmidt-Hertha
Chapter 14: Something for older people? Research-based general education and university lifelong learning
Marcus Ludescher
Chapter 15: Unlocking potential for later-life learning: engaging adults in their own learning in a university setting. A case study from Scotland
Rob Mark, Val Bissland and Lesley Hart
Chapter 16: Managing age diversity in companies: transferring competences between generations at work - Project Génération+
Jean-Marie Dujardin and David Randaxhe
Chapter 17: Over-fifty returning adult learners: another neglected species?
Renaud Maes and Michel Sylin
Looking forward
Index
