The Learning Society: Challenges and Trends, Vol. 2
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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. Booknews A collection of readings examining the demographic, technological, economic, and cultural factors leading up to the learning society, exploring their policy and practical implications for lifelong learning, with a focus on Europe. Looks at trends in education and training which support the development of a learning society, discussing subjects such as educating cheap labor, open learning and the consumer culture, and education and the marketplace. For graduate students in education. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
List of illustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: from adult education to a learning society?11Lifelong learning: thirty years of educational change102The expansion of adult education and training in Europe: trends and issues263Scrambled eggs: social policy and adult learning454Competitiveness, technological innovation and the challenge to Europe595Learners of the future: preparing a policy for the third age786Educating cheap labour967The age of leisure1128Adult education in the light of the risk society1229Open learning and consumer culture13610Education and the marketplace15011The learning society16212Investment: adding value through lifelong learning18413Toward a career-resilient workforce20714Who really benefits from employee development schemes?22115The idea of the university in the 21st century: a British perspective23616Guidance and coherence in flexible learning25517New technologies for open learning: the superhighway to the learning society?272Index292
