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9780749434113

The Age of Learning: Education and the Knowledge Society

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  • ISBN13:

    9780749434113

  • ISBN10:

    0749434112

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2000-12-01
  • Publisher: Routledge

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A multidisciplinary analysis of learning in contemporary society. It analyzes both the meaning and the place of these strands that make up modern education and offers an overview of the part they play in the work of all educators, trainers, teachers and course developers.

Table of Contents

Contributors v
Preface vii
PART ONE: THE EMERGENCE OF THE LEARNING SOCIETY
The emerging idea
3(13)
Linda Merricks
Social, economic and political contexts
16(11)
Stephen McNair
The changing educational scene
27(14)
Peter Jarvis
PART TWO: LEARNING AND THE LEARNING SOCIETY
From education policy to lifelong learning strategies
41(14)
Colin Griffin
The learning society
55(14)
Colin Griffin
Bob Brownhill
Lifelong learning
69(14)
Bob Brownhill
PART THREE: THE MECHANICS OF THE LEARNING SOCIETY
Paying for the age of learning
83(12)
Stephen McNair
Work-related learning
95(14)
Paul Tosey
Stephen McNair
Facilitating access to learning: educational and vocational guidance
109(14)
Julia Preece
PART FOUR: IMPLICATIONS OF THE LEARNING SOCIETY
Implications of the learning society for education beyond school
123(11)
Linda Merricks
The school in the age of learning
134(13)
John Holford
Gill Nicholls
Corporations and professions
147(10)
Peter Jarvis
Paul Tosey
Implications for the delivery of learning materials
157(14)
John Holford
Tom Black
Implications for including the socially excluded in the learning age
171(14)
Julia Preece
PART FIVE: REFLECTIONS ON THE AGE OF LEARNING
The public recognition of learning
185(10)
Peter Jarvis
Questioning the learning society
195(10)
Peter Jarvis
Civil society and citizenship in a learning age
205(12)
John Holford
Future directions for the learning society
217(8)
Peter Jarvis
Julia Preece
Index 225

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