Democracy, Lifelong Learning and the Learning Society: Active Citizenship in a Late Modern Age

by Jarvis; Peter

• ISBN13: 9780415355452
• ISBN10: 0415355451
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2008-07-29
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Peter Jarvis is an internationally renowned expert in the fields of lifelong learning, adult and continuing education and is founding editor of The International Journal of Lifelong Education, published by Taylor Francis. He is Professor of Continuing Education at the University of Surrey, UK, Honorary Visiting Professor at City University and Professor (honoris causa) at the University of Pecs in Hungary.

Table of Contents

List of figures and tables	p. viii
Introduction	p. 1
Lifelong learning and the learning society	p. 3
Lifelong learning	p. 4
Towards the learning society?	p. 20
The nature of power	p. 28
Conclusion	p. 32
Global and local lifelong learning policies in the knowledge economy	p. 34
Towards a general model of social pressures to produce lifelong learning policies	p. 34
International political agencies	p. 36
National policies	p. 50
Regional and local responses	p. 56
Non-governmental organisations	p. 56
Conclusion	p. 57
The spirit and values of modernity	p. 60
The development and utilisation of scientific and technological knowledge	p. 61
Individualism and freedom	p. 64
Rationality and pragmatism	p. 74
Conclusion	p. 78
Capitalism and society	p. 80
Mercantile capitalism and religion	p. 81
Industrial capitalism, the church and the state	p. 83
Global capital and the weakened state	p. 87
Conclusion	p. 91
The information society: learning global capitalist culture	p. 92
Global capitalist culture	p. 92
The information society	p. 97
Lifelong learning and the global capitalist culture	p. 102
Conclusion	p. 108
Indoctrination and the learning society	p. 109
Indoctrination, brainwashing and thought reform	p. 110
Indoctrination and education	p. 111
Learning and brain washing	p. 117
Global totalism	p. 118
Conclusion	p. 120
Ethics and modernity	p. 123
The nature of the ethical good	p. 123
The stages of moral development	p. 137
Ethical values and modernity	p. 139
The ethics of a modern capitalist society	p. 146
Conclusion	p. 148
The ethics of lifelong learning and the learning society in global capitalist society	p. 149
Lifelong learning	p. 149
The learning society	p. 157
Towards a good learning society?	p. 158
Conclusion	p. 161
Democracy and the learning society	p. 163
The concept of democracy	p. 164
Models of democracy	p. 168
Rawls' theory of liberal democracy	p. 170
Democracy as a learning society	p. 174
Conclusion	p. 177
Utopia deferred	p. 179
The concept of Utopia	p. 181
Political visions of Utopia	p. 182
Fatal flaws in modern economic thought	p. 183
Education's Utopia: the learning society	p. 186
The education of desire	p. 190
Conclusion	p. 191
Back to the beginning?	p. 193
Time and change	p. 194
After virtue	p. 196
The agapistic relationship	p. 198
Towards a justification of agape as the universal basis of morality	p. 200
Another Utopia?	p. 204
Conclusion	p. 207
A revolution in learning: a vision of a better learning society	p. 209
Communitas, democracy and the learning society	p. 212
The public debate: morality and politics	p. 216
Prophets, teachers and leaders	p. 220
Conclusion	p. 224
Notes	p. 226
Bibliography	p. 233
Index	p. 242
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