Download or read book Lifelong Learning - Signs, Discourses, Practices written by Robin Usher and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-05-22 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text explores the different ways in which the various social practices in which people participate becomes signed as learning, how and why that occurs and with what consequences. It takes seriously the linguistic turn in social theory to draw upon semiotics and poststructuralism through which to explore the significance of lifelong learning as an emerging discourse in education.