The Age of Learning: Education and the Knowledge SocietyPeter Jarvis Psychology Press, 2001 - 230 pages A multidisciplinary analysis of learning in contemporary society. It analyzes both the meaning and the place of these strands that make up modern education and offers an overview of the part they play in the work of all educators, trainers, teachers and course developers. |
Contents
The emerging idea | 3 |
Social economic and political contexts | 16 |
The changing educational scene | 27 |
From education policy to lifelong learning strategies | 41 |
The learning society | 55 |
Lifelong learning | 69 |
Paying for the age of learning | 83 |
educational and vocational | 109 |
Corporations and professions | 147 |
Implications for the delivery of learning materials | 157 |
Implications for including the socially excluded in | 171 |
The public recognition of learning | 185 |
Questioning the learning society | 195 |
Civil society and citizenship in a learning age | 205 |
Future directions for the learning society | 217 |
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Implications of the learning society for education beyond | 123 |
The school in the age of learning | 134 |
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