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

ISBN-13: 9780415355452 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 248 str.

Peter Jarvis

Opis

Offers a different perspective on lifelong learning and the learning society and locates them within humanity itself. Addressing the issues that arise from the vision of the learning society, this book concludes that since human beings continue to learn, s

Spis treści

Chapter 1 Lifelong Learning and the Learning Society  Chapter 2 Global and Local Lifelong Learning Policies in The Knowledge Economy  Chapter 3 The Spirit and Values of Modernity  Chapter 4 Capitalism and Society  Chapter 5 The Information Society: learning global capitalist culture  Chapter 6 Indoctrination and the Learning Society  Chapter 7 Ethics and Modernity  Chapter 8 The Ethics of Lifelong Learning and the Learning Society in Global Capitalist Society  Chapter 9 Democracy and the Learning Society  Chapter 10 Utopia Deferred  Chapter 11 Back to the Beginning ?  Chapter 12 A Revolution in Learning: a vision of a better Learning Society

O autorze

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 and 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.