Making Lifelong Learning Work

by Longworth, Norm

• ISBN13: 9780749427276
• ISBN10: 0749427272
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1999-05-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Professor Longworth considers lifelong learning as an agent for accelerating change, using real case studies as examples of learning communities that are adapting for the future. Teachers and lecturers, course developers, policy-makers and training/HRD professionals in many fields will find much food for thought.

Author Biography

Norman Longworth now a visiting professor at Napier and Sheffield Hallam universities, where he is establishing a 'centre for the learning city'.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. vii
Foreword	p. ix
Dedication	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
New insights into lifelong learning	p. 13
Into the learning century	p. 15
The land of learning	p. 22
The common constituency of learning	p. 37
A fiefdom without failure	p. 49
The territory of eternal learning	p. 61
Learning for all seasons	p. 83
Summary of part 1	p. 100
Learning cities, learning towns, learning regions - making lifelong learning work	p. 107
Introducing the learning city	p. 109
Leadership in the learning city - making things happen	p. 116
Employment and employability in the learning city - making learning work	p. 122
Aspirations for the learning city - raising the sights	p. 127
Resources for the learning city - increasing the assets	p. 132
Networks in the learning city - communicating with the world	p. 137
Information in the learning city - broadcasting the learning news	p. 142
Needs and requirements in the learning city - discovering the demand	p. 147
Growth and the creation of wealth and employment - stimulating the economy	p. 154
Change management in the learning city - preparing people for the future	p. 159
Investing in the learning city - making everything count	p. 164
Technology for the learning city - creating the future	p. 167
Involving people in the learning city - harnessing the talent	p. 174
Environment in the learning city - improving the future quality of life	p. 179
Strategies for the learning city - celebrating and rewarding learning	p. 183
Summarizing the learning city - putting it together	p. 187
Valediction - starting the process	p. 189
Case study: Kent - region of learning	p. 195
The ELLIcities charter for learning cities	p. 205
The Sapporo learning festival	p. 207
ELLI and ELLIcities	p. 210
A learning organization	p. 215
References	p. 217
Index	p. 223
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