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This document explores the sudden increase in interest in lifelong learning among policymakers in Great Britain and elsewhere; existing patterns of participation in lifelong learning; the measures being developed to promote lifelong learning; and the prospects of achieving a viable learning society. The following are among the topics discussed in the book's five chapters: (1) lifelong learning as a design for the future (global policy consensus on lifelong learning; the changing course of life and new learning challenges; education and the learning society); (2) the silent explosion in lifelong learning (the impact of a learning society; permanently learning subjects; fashion and the individual; reflexive modernization); (3) the learning economy (occupational change and the changing skills mix; the learning company; mobility, flexibility, and the learning imperative; the concept of employable workers as economic nomads; self-direction and employment; learning to work and learning from work); (4) groups that are being left behind (social exclusion and the redundancy of the poor; rising expectations; the politics of poverty and discourse of exclusion; legitimate inequalities; the "k

Author

John Field

Publisher

Trentham Books, Ltd., Westview House, 734 London Road, Stoke on Trent, ST4 5NP, United Kingdom UK (15.99 British pounds; 25 Euros). Tel: 44 0 1782 745567; Fax: 44 0 1782 745553; e-mail: [email protected]; Web site: http://www.trentham-books.co.uk/pages/home.htm

Published

2000

Language

EN

ISBN

9781858561981

Updated

2026-03-24