Binding: Paperback
Description: 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. Five themes run through this book: Humankind has always been aware of the imperfections of human society: as a consequence it has looked back to a mythological past and forward to a utopian future that might be religious political economic or even educational to find something better. Lifelong learning as we currently see it is like two sides of the same coin: we learn in order to be workers who produce and learn we have a need to consume. We then devour the commodities we have produced whilst others take the profits! One of the greatest paradoxes of the human condition has been the place of the individual in the group/community or conversely how the groups allow the individual to exist rather than stifle individuality Modernity is flawed and the type of society that we currently have which we in the West call a learning society is in need of an ethical overhaul in this late modern age. There is a need to bring a different perspective both political and ethical on lifelong learning and the learning society in order to try to understand what the good society and the good life might become. In Democracy Lifelong Learning and the Learning Society the third volume of his trilogy on lifelong learning Professor Jarvis expertly addresses the issues that arise from the vision of the learning society. The book concludes that since human beings continue to learn so the learning society must be a process within the incomplete project of humanity. All three books in the trilogy will be essential reading for students in education HRD and teaching and learning generally in addition to academics and informed practitioners. The Lifelong Learning and the Learning Society Trilogy Volume 1: Towards a Comprehensive Theory of Human Learning Volume 2: Globalisation Lifelong Learning and the Learning Society Volume 3: Democracy Lifelong Learning and the Learning Society Peter Jarvis is an internationally renowned expert in the field of adult learning and continuing education. He is Professor of Continuing Education at the University of Surrey UK and honorary Adjunct Professor in Adult Education at the University of Georgia US a.
Title: Democracy Lifelong Learning And The Learning Society Active Citizenship In A Late Modern Age
Author(s): Jarvis Peter (University Of Surrey Uk)
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Barcode: 9780415355452
Pages: 248 Pages, 9 Tables, Black And White
Publication Date: 10/1/2008
Series: Lifelong Learning and the Learning Society
Category: Educational Strategies & Policy