The Learning Society Of The Future

Author : Sungsup Ra,Shanti Jagannathan,Rupert Maclean
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-22
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789811609831

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Powering a Learning Society During an Age of Disruption by Sungsup Ra,Shanti Jagannathan,Rupert Maclean Pdf

This open access book presents contemporary perspectives on the role of a learning society from the lens of leading practitioners, experts from universities, governments, and industry leaders. The think pieces argue for a learning society as a major driver of change with far-reaching influence on learning to serve the needs of economies and societies. The book is a testimonial to the importance of ‘learning communities.’ It highlights the pivotal role that can be played by non-traditional actors such as city and urban planners, citizens, transport professionals, and technology companies. This collection seeks to contribute to the discourse on strengthening the fabric of a learning society crucial for future economic and social development, particularly in the aftermath of the coronavirus disease.

Author : Riel Miller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 23 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Education
ISBN : 1876323922

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Where Schools Might Fit in a Future Learning Society by Riel Miller Pdf

Author : Joseph E. Stiglitz,Bruce C. Greenwald
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780231540629

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Creating a Learning Society by Joseph E. Stiglitz,Bruce C. Greenwald Pdf

“A superb new understanding of the dynamic economy as a learning society, one that goes well beyond the usual treatment of education, training, and R&D.”—Robert Kuttner, author of The Stakes: 2020 and the Survival of American Democracy Since its publication Creating a Learning Society has served as an effective tool for those who advocate government policies to advance science and technology. It shows persuasively how enormous increases in our standard of living have been the result of learning how to learn, and it explains how advanced and developing countries alike can model a new learning economy on this example. Creating a Learning Society: Reader’s Edition uses accessible language to focus on the work’s central message and policy prescriptions. As the book makes clear, creating a learning society requires good governmental policy in trade, industry, intellectual property, and other important areas. The text’s central thesis—that every policy affects learning—is critical for governments unaware of the innovative ways they can propel their economies forward. “Profound and dazzling. In their new book, Joseph E. Stiglitz and Bruce C. Greenwald study the human wish to learn and our ability to learn and so uncover the processes that relate the institutions we devise and the accompanying processes that drive the production, dissemination, and use of knowledge . . . This is social science at its best.”—Partha Dasgupta, University of Cambridge “An impressive tour de force, from the theory of the firm all the way to long-term development, guided by the focus on knowledge and learning . . . This is an ambitious book with far-reaching policy implications.”—Giovanni Dosi, director, Institute of Economics, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna “[A] sweeping work of macroeconomic theory.”—Harvard Business Review

Author : Peter Jarvis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2008-06-10
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781134254699

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Democracy, Lifelong Learning and the Learning Society by Peter Jarvis Pdf

This is a book with a difference: it produces a completely new perspective on lifelong learning and the learning society and locates them within humanity itself. Five themes run through this book: Humankind has always been aware of the imperfections of human society: as a consequence, it has looked back to a mythological past and forward to a utopian future that might be religious, political, economic or even educational to find something better. Lifelong learning as we currently see it is like two sides of the same coin: we learn in order to be workers who produce, and learn we have a need to consume. We then devour the commodities we have produced, whilst others take the profits! One of the greatest paradoxes of the human condition has been the place of the individual in the group/community, or conversely how the groups allow the individual to exist rather than stifle individuality Modernity is flawed and the type of society that we currently have, which we in the West call a learning society, is in need of an ethical overhaul in this late modern age. There is a need to bring a different perspective – both political and ethical – on lifelong learning and the learning society in order to try to understand what the good society and the good life might become. In Democracy, Lifelong Learning and the Learning Society, the third volume of his trilogy on lifelong learning, Professor Jarvis expertly addresses the issues that arise from the vision of the learning society. The book concludes that since human beings continue to learn, so the learning society must be a process within the incomplete project of humanity. All three books in the trilogy will be essential reading for students in education, HRD and teaching and learning generally, in addition to academics and informed practitioners. The Lifelong Learning and the Learning Society Trilogy Volume 1: Towards a Comprehensive Theory of Human Learning Volume 2: Globalisation, Lifelong Learning and the Learning Society Volume 3: Democracy, Lifelong Learning and the Learning Society Peter Jarvis is an internationally renowned expert in the field of adult learning and continuing education. He is Professor of Continuing Education at the University of Surrey, UK, and honorary Adjunct Professor in Adult Education at the University of Georgia, USA.

Author : Stewart Ranson
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1998-11-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781847141620

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Inside the Learning Society by Stewart Ranson Pdf

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.

Author : Elisabeth Dunne
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-12
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135373382

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The Learning Society by Elisabeth Dunne Pdf

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.

Author : Riel Miller,OECD International Futures Programme
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Education
ISBN : UCBK:C050820257

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Towards the Learning Society of the 21st Century by Riel Miller,OECD International Futures Programme Pdf

Author : Kenneth Wain
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Education
ISBN : 0820468363

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The Learning Society in a Postmodern World by Kenneth Wain Pdf

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.

Author : Joseph E. Stiglitz,Bruce C. Greenwald
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 677 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780231525541

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Creating a Learning Society by Joseph E. Stiglitz,Bruce C. Greenwald Pdf

It has long been recognized that an improved standard of living results from advances in technology, not from the accumulation of capital. It has also become clear that what truly separates developed from less-developed countries is not just a gap in resources or output but a gap in knowledge. In fact, the pace at which developing countries grow is largely a function of the pace at which they close that gap. Thus, to understand how countries grow and develop, it is essential to know how they learn and become more productive and what government can do to promote learning. In Creating a Learning Society, Joseph E. Stiglitz and Bruce C. Greenwald cast light on the significance of this insight for economic theory and policy. Taking as a starting point Kenneth J. Arrow's 1962 paper "Learning by Doing," they explain why the production of knowledge differs from that of other goods and why market economies alone typically do not produce and transmit knowledge efficiently. Closing knowledge gaps and helping laggards learn are central to growth and development. But creating a learning society is equally crucial if we are to sustain improved living standards in advanced countries. Combining accessible prose with technical economic analysis, Stiglitz and Greenwald provide new models of "endogenous growth," up-ending thowhe thinking about both domestic and global policy and trade regimes. They show well-designed government trade and industrial policies can help create a learning society, and how poorly designed intellectual property regimes can retard learning. They also explain how virtually every government policy has effects, both positive and negative, on learning, a fact that policymakers must recognize. They demonstrate why many standard policy prescriptions, especially those associated with "neoliberal" doctrines focusing on static resource allocations, have impeded learning. Among the provocative implications are that free trade may lead to stagnation whereas broad-based industrial protection and exchange rate interventions may bring benefits—not just to the industrial sector, but to the entire economy. The volume concludes with brief commentaries from Philippe Aghion and Michael Woodford, as well as from Nobel Laureates Kenneth J. Arrow and Robert M. Solow.

Author : Torsten Husén
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015002970856

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The Learning Society by Torsten Husén Pdf

Monograph on the nature and role of schooling in future societies, with particular reference to the USA, Sweden and the UK - covers educational research and innovation, aspects of learning, etc. Bibliography pp. 255 to 260.

Author : Riddell, Sheila,Baron, Stephen,Alastair Wilson
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2001-05-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781861342232

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The Learning Society and People with Learning Difficulties by Riddell, Sheila,Baron, Stephen,Alastair Wilson Pdf

This work argues that policy based on human capital premises has produced forms of lifelong learning which exacerbate the marginalization of people with learning disabilities. It explores the links between community care, education, training, employment, housing and benefits policies.

Author : Ari Antikainen,Jarmo Houtsonen,Juha Kauppila,Hannu Huotelin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-12
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136366123

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Living In A Learning Society by Ari Antikainen,Jarmo Houtsonen,Juha Kauppila,Hannu Huotelin Pdf

This text discusses the meaning of education through an examination of life paths, identities and significant learning experiences. Looking at education over three generations of war and scant education; of structural change and increasing educational opportunities; and of social well-being and wide educational choice the book examines a variety of questions.; The book demonstrates how the synthesis of social and cultural interpretations of education forms four groups: resource, status, conformity and individualism. The implications to education policy in late-modern or postmodern society are also discussed.

Author : Michael F. D. Young
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2002-01-04
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135710101

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The Curriculum of the Future by Michael F. D. Young Pdf

In this important book the author looks back on the 'knowledge question'. What knowledge gets selected to be validated as school knowledge or as part of the school curriculum, and why is it selected? Looking forward, Young discusses how most developed countries have high levels of participation in post-compulsory education, but still use curricula designed for a time when only the elite pursued further education. He argues the need to rethink post-16 education to shift focus onto vocational education, school-work issues and lifelong learning.

Author : Prem Lata Sharma
Publisher : Sarup & Sons
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Continuing education
ISBN : 8176256757

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The future of the learning world by Prem Lata Sharma Pdf

Author : Jason A. Scorza
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-07
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781683930105

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Higher Education as a Bridge to the Future by Jason A. Scorza Pdf

This volume of essays and speeches by noted international higher education leaders explores the critical role of higher education both as an active part of global civil society and as a foundation for the realization of a just, peaceful, and prosperous global future. The collection contains the proceedings of the 50th Annual Meeting of the International Association of University Presidents (IAUP), the world’s largest organization of higher education leaders.