2nd Edition

The Learning Society: Challenges and Trends

Edited By Richard Edwards, Peter Raggatt, Nick Small Copyright 1996
314 Pages
by Routledge

314 Pages
by Routledge

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,... Read more
Introduction 1. Lifelong Learning: thirty years of educational change A. Stock 2. The Expansion of Adult Education and Training in Europe: trends and issues A. Tuijnman 3. Scramblloed Eggs: Social Policy and Adult Learning A. Tuckett 4. An Alysis of VET policies in the EU in the 1980s A. Clarke 5. Learners of the Future: preparing a policy for the third age T.Schuller and A. Bostyn 6. Educating Cheap Labour M. Hart 7. The Age of Leisure K. Worpole 8. Adult Education in the Light of the Risk Society T. Jansen and R. Van Der Veen 9. Open Learning and Consumer Culture J. Field 10. Education and the Marketplace T. Lett 11. The Learning Society H. Van der Vee 12. Investment: adding value through lifelong learning Commission for Social Justice 13. Towards a Career Resilient Workforce R.H. Waterman and B.A. Collard 14. Conflicts and Partnerships: employee development schemes J. Payne 15. Guidance and Cherence in Flexible Learning C. Cooper and J. Sadler 16. Open Learning for the Learning Society A. Jones andG. Kirkup 17. The Idea of the University in the Twenty-first Century: a British perspective Peter Scott

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Richard Edwards, Peter Raggatt, Nick Small

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