The Knowledge Economy and Lifelong Learning A Critical Reader
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
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The Knowledge Economy and Education Volume 4 Series Editors: David W. Livingstone, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education David Guile, Faculty of Policy and Society, Institute of Education, University of London Editorial Board: Stephen Billett, Griffiths University, Australia Zhou Zuoyu, Normal University, Beijing, China Emery Hyslop-Margison, Concordia University, Canada Karen Jensen, University of Oslo, Norway Johan Muller, University of Cape Town, South Africa Yoko Watanabe, University of Kyoto, Japan Scope: The aim of this series is to provide a focus for writers and readers interested in exploring the relation between the knowledge economy and education or an aspect of that relation, for example, vocational and professional education theorised critically. It seeks authors who are keen to question conceptually and empirically the causal link that policymakers globally assume exists between education and the knowledge economy by raising: (i) epistemological issues as regards the concepts and types of and the relations between knowledge, the knowledge economy and education; (ii) sociological and political economic issues as regards the changing nature of work, the role of learning in workplaces, the relation between work, formal and informal learning and competing and contending visions of what a knowledge economy/knowledge society might look like; and (iii) pedagogic issues as regards the relationship between knowledge and learning in educational, community and workplace contexts. The series is particularly aimed at researchers, policymakers, practitioners and students who wish to read texts and engage with researchers who call into question the current conventional wisdom that the knowledge economy is a new global reality to which all individuals and societies must adjust, and that lifelong learning is the strategy to secure such an adjustment. The series hopes to stimulate debate amongst this diverse audience by publishing books that: (i) articulate alternative visions of the relation between education and the knowledge economy; (ii) offer new insights into the extent, modes, and effectiveness of people’s acquisition of knowledge and skill in the new circumstances that they face in the developed and developing world, (iii) and suggest how changes in both work conditions and curriculum and pedagogy can led to new relations between work and education.
The Knowledge Economy and Lifelong Learning A Critical Reader
Edited by D.W. Livingstone University of Toronto, Canada and David Guile University of London, UK
SENSE PUBLISHERS ROTTERDAM / BOSTON / TAIPEI
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ISBN 978-94-6091-913-8 (paperback) ISBN 978-94-6091-914-5 (hardback) ISBN 978-94-6091-915-2 (e-book)
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