The Right to Learn : Alternatives for a Learning Society

ISBN-13: 9780415231657 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 224 str.

Ken Brown;Brown Ken

Opis

This volume raises questions about the future of the learning society. It claims that recent UN Conventions about the rights of children and parents are not being addressed by the UK Government's concentration on a highly centralized education system. Drawing on case study material from recent projects in the US, Denmark and the Netherlands, the author raises questions about educational provision and access. He discusses why there is a need to educate both society and the individual. He studies the Human Rights issue, the economy and the cost effectiveness of education, and epistemological perspectives. Finally he discusses some alternative solutions to the problems he sees occuring in the UK, drawing on examples from overseas and suggesting possible ways forward.

Spis treści

1. Introduction 2. New Buckets Under Old Leaks? 3. Why Educate? Society, the Individual and Education 4. Ours to Reason Why? the Human Rights Issue 5. What Price Freedom? Economy and Effectiveness in Education 6. Learning, Teaching and Learning to Learn: Epistomological Perspectives 7. How Others Do It (i): Some International Alternatives 8. How Others Do It (ii): A Radical Alternative; Home Education 9. Ways Forward: Towards a 'Learning Society' 10. Conclusion: Towards a Learning Society

O autorze

Ken Brown is an Honorary Research Fellow at the Centre for Educational Research, University of Aberdeen