The Learning Society: Challenges and Trends - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Learning Society: Challenges and Trends write by Director of the Center for Great Plains Studies Professor of Economics Richard Edwards. This book was released on 2013-12-16. The Learning Society: Challenges and Trends available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The 'learning society' is not a new idea, although its popularity has grown in recent years with the suggestion that lifelong learning is a condition for economic competitiveness in a global economy, replacing the earlier conception of it as a condition for democratic citizenship. This reader, designed to accompany Module E827 of the MA in Education, critically examines the demographic, technological, economic and cultural challenges which have led to interest in the idea of a learning society, and explores their policy and practical implications for lifelong learning. It also explores and evaluates trends in education and training which support the development of a learning society. Overall, the book provides readers with a range of opinions on the learning society within which broad context they can place their own practice.
Changing Places?
Changing Places? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Changing Places? write by Richard Edwards. This book was released on 2002-09-10. Changing Places? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Flexibility has become a central concept in much policy and academic debate. Individuals, organizations and societies are all required to become more flexible so that they can participate in the ongoing processes of change involved in lifelong learning. This book explores how the notion of a learning society has developed over recent years: the changes that have given rise to the requirement for flexibility, and the changed discourses and practices that have emerged in the education and training of adults. With the growth in interest in adults as learners, (primarily to support economic competitiveness), the closed field of adult education has now been displaced by a more open discourse of lifelong learning. This involves not only changing practices such as moving towards open and distance-based learning, but also changing workplace identities. Learning settings are therefore changing places in a number of senses: they are places in which people change; they are subject to change; and they are changing to include the home and workplace as well as more formal settings. This book takes an unusually critical standpoint: it challenges contemporary trends, explores the uncertainties and ambivalences of the processes of change, and is suggestive of different forms of engagement with them. It will prove an important text for policy makers, workplace trainers and those working in the field of adult, further and higher education. Richard Edwards is currently a Senior Lecturer in post compulsory education at the Open University.
The Learning Society in a Postmodern World
The Learning Society in a Postmodern World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Learning Society in a Postmodern World write by Kenneth Wain. This book was released on 2004. The Learning Society in a Postmodern World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Lifelong learning has become a key concern as the focus of educational policy has shifted from mass schooling toward the learning society. The shift started in the mid 1960s and early 1970s under the impetus of a group of writers and adult educators, gravitating around UNESCO, with a humanist philosophy and a leftist agenda. The vocabulary of that movement was appropriated in the 1990s by other interests with a very different performativist agenda emphasizing effectiveness and economic outcomes. This change of interest, described in the book, has signified the death of education. The Learning Society in a Postmodern World explores different theoretical resources to respond to this situation, mainly those that propose some restoration of an educated public or, to the contrary, individual self-creation, and uses the works of a broad range of philosophers and thinkers - notably MacIntyre, Habermas, Foucault, Derrida, Rorty, and Baudrillard. In addition, it raises important questions about postmodern and poststructuralist responses to education in the postmodern world. Its comprehensiveness and historical background make it an essential textbook for theoretical courses in lifelong learning and in educational theory in general. A broad range of interests and subject matter make it important reading for educators, policy specialists, media specialists, researchers on the subject of lifelong learning and on the relation between education and the postmodern world, political theorists, philosophers, and philosophers of education.
Inside the Learning Society
Inside the Learning Society - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Inside the Learning Society write by Stewart Ranson. This book was released on 1998-11-01. Inside the Learning Society available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. As an approach to the diverse and shifting learning needs of today, the learning society labours under a definitional generosity which has led to three different models evolving with competing claims. This book traces the history of the concept and lucidly lays out these three interpretive models: learning for work, learning for citizenship and learning for democracy. The book's close scrutiny concludes with an analysis that synthesizes and sharpens our understanding of the learning society. With due consideration given to the emerging critique and with chapters from public bodies engaged in implementing learning society principles, Inside the Learning Society offers a comprehensive appraisal of ideas and practices. This is a book of great significance for anyone concerned about or involved in the future of education.
The Learning Society
The Learning Society - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Learning Society write by Elisabeth Dunne. This book was released on 2014-05-12. The Learning Society available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This text provides perspectives in British and international interpretations of a learning society and what the roles of core skills are. The book covers what should be happening in theory and what is happening in practice and develops a critical awareness of the issues.
