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The Knowledge Economy and Lifelong Learning
A Critical Reader

English · Hardback

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This book presents some of the most trenchant critical analyses of the widespread claims for the recent emergence of a knowledge economy and the attendant need for greater lifelong learning.
The book contains two sections: first, general critiques of the limits of current notions of a knowledge economy and required adult learning, in terms of historical comparisons, socio-political construction and current empirical evidence; secondly, specific challenges to presumed relations between work requirements and learning through case studies in diverse current workplaces that document richer learning processes than knowledge economy advocates intimate. Many of the leading authors in the field are represented.
There are no other books to date that both critically assess the limits of the notion of the knowledge economy and examine closely the relation of workplace restructuring to lifelong learning beyond the confines of formal higher education and related educational policies. This reader provides a distinctive overview for future studies of relations between work and learning in contemporary societies beyond caricatures of the knowledge economy.


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D. W. Livingstone is Canada Research Chair in Lifelong Learning and Work and Professor Emeritus at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto. David Guile is Professor of Education and Work at the Institute of Education, University of London.


Product details

Assisted by D. W. Livingstone (Editor), David Guile (Editor)
Publisher Brill
 
Content Book
Product form Hardback
Publication date 01.01.2012
Subject Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology
 
EAN 9789460919145
ISBN 978-94-6091-914-5
Pages 382
Dimensions (packing) 15.6 x 23.4 x 2.2 cm
Weight (packing) 712 g
 
Series Knowledge Economy and Educatio > 4
Knowledge Economy and Educatio > 4
Subjects EDUCATION / Adult & Continuing Education
Education / Teaching
 

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