1st Edition

The Right to Learn Alternatives for a Learning Society

By Ken Brown Copyright 2002
212 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

The concept of the 'learning society' brings to mind access to education for all and a culture of lifelong learning. But government interventions in education such as the National Curriculum and standardized tests have only served to consolidate the connection between learning and schooling. Schools, furthermore, now have to juggle an increasingly diverse and incompatible range of tasks, providing... Read more
1. Introduction 2. New Buckets Under Old Leaks? 3. Why Educate? Society, the Individual and Education 4. Ours to Reason Why? the Human Rights Issue 5. What Price Freedom? Economy and Effectiveness in Education 6. Learning, Teaching and Learning to Learn: Epistomological Perspectives 7. How Others Do It (i): Some International Alternatives 8. How Others Do It (ii): A Radical Alternative; Home Education 9. Ways Forward: Towards a 'Learning Society' 10. Conclusion: Towards a Learning Society

Biography

Ken Brown is an Honorary Research Fellow at the Centre for Educational Research, University of Aberdeen