Cautionary Tales in the Ethics of Lifelong Learning Policy and Management

This work is concerned with appraising the contemporary ethical impact of lifelong learning ideology and advocacy on education, through focusing on trends in educational policy and management that flow from the ideology. It has its origins in the author's

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Lifelong Learning Book Series VOLUME 1

Series Editors

David N. Aspin, Em, Faculty of Education, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia Judith D. Chapman, Centre of Lifelong Learning, Australian Catholic University, Melbourne, Australia

Editorial Board

William L. Boyd, Department of Education Policy Studies, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA Karen Evans, Institute of Education, University of London, UK Malcolm Skilbeck, Drysdale, Victoria, Australia Yukiko Sawano, Department for Lifelong Learning Policies, National Institute for Educational Policy Research (NIER), Tokyo, Japan Kaoru Okamoto, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Government of Japan, Tokyo, Japan Denis W. Ralph, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia

Aims & Scope

"Lifelong Learning" has become a central theme in education and community development. Both international and national agencies, governments and educational institutions have adopted the idea of lifelong learning as their major theme for address and attention over the next ten years. They realize that it is only by getting people committed to the idea of education both life-wide and lifelong that the goals of economic advancement, social emancipation and personal growth will be attained. The Lifelong Learning Book Series aims to keep scholars and professionals informed about and abreast of current developments and to advance research and scholarship in the domain of Lifelong Learning. It further aims to provide learning and teaching materials, serve as a forum for scholarly and professional debate and offer a rich fund of resources for researchers, policy-makers, scholars, professionals and practitioners in the field. The volumes in this international Series are multi-disciplinary in orientation, polymathic in origin, range and reach, and variegated in range and complexity. They are written by researchers, professionals and practitioners working widely across the international arena in lifelong learning and are orientated towards policy improvement and educational betterment throughout the life cycle.

Cautionary Tales in the Ethics of Lifelong Leaming Policy and Management A Book of Fables by

RICHARD G. BAGNALL Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia

Springer-Science+Business Media, B.V.

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ISBN 978-1-4020-2214-2 ISBN 978-1-4020-2215-9 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-4020-2215-9 Published by Kluwer Academic Publishers, P.O. Box 17, 3300 AA Dordrecht, The Netherlands. Sold and distributed in North, Central and South America by Kluwer Academic Publishers, 101 Philip Drive, NorweH, MA 02061, U.S.A. In alI other countries, sold and distributed by Kluwer Academic Publishers, P.O. Box 322, 3300 AH Dordrecht, The Netherlands.

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