Adults' Use of Computers and the Internet for Self-Education

Autor/inn/en	Selwyn, Neil; Gorard, Stephen; Furlong, John
Titel	Adults' Use of Computers and the Internet for Self-Education
Quelle	In: Studies in the Education of Adults, 38 (2006) 2, S.141-159 (19 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0266-0830
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Internet; Educational Technology; Social Stratification; Information Technology; Informal Education; Computer Uses in Education; Adults; Independent Study; United Kingdom (England); United Kingdom (Wales) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Unterrichtsmedien; Soziale Zusammensetzung; Informationstechnologie; Informelle Bildung; Nichtformale Bildung; Computernutzung; Selbststudium
Abstract	This paper explores the varied use of information technologies (ITs) such as the computer and Internet for self-education, highlighting how these technologies can facilitate and suppress such learning opportunities throughout the adult population. Based on data drawn from a large-scale study of adults in the West of England and South Wales, the paper addresses three areas of inquiry: (i) how computers and the Internet are used in adults' engagement with self-education; (ii) why adults engage (or do not engage) in IT-based self-education; and (iii) the social stratification of adults' engagement in IT-based self-education. The paper concludes that although computers and the Internet are, indeed, being used by some adults for self-education (often in extensive and elaborate ways), they appear to be reinforcing rather than activating processes of self-education, allowing people to continue with pre-existing and pre-set patterns of informal learning which generally replicate and reinforce patterns of "offline" self-education. (Contains 5 tables and 5 notes.) (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10