The Crisis of Schooling? Learning, Knowledge and Competencies in Modern Societies - Softcover

José Resende; Maria Manuel Vieira

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1443809632 ISBN 13: 9781443809634

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009

Synopsis

The dynamics of schooling and learning are central issues to debate modernity. As they represent an essential feature of socializing processes in contemporary societies, they gather the ambivalences related to the production of individuals in modernity. On the other hand, these dynamics occur in a context of enlarged globalization, despite implying specific local translations, often composite. This book raises some questions concerning schooling in modern societies. What means learning in a globalized world? Does lifelong learning introduce new challenges to knowledge and the scholastic form of transmission? Are competences prevailing as a new form of qualification in modern societies? How teachers deal with these new professional dilemmas?

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About the Author

José Resende, is Assistant Research Professor of Sociology at the New University of Lisbon, Portugal. He is presently a Researcher at Cesnova- Research Centre and at the Permanent School Observatory, University of Lisbon. Maria Manuel Vieira, sociologist, is Senior Researcher at the Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon, Portugal, and former Vice-President of the Portuguese Sociological Association.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1443809632
• ISBN 13: 9781443809634
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 155
• Editor: José Resende, Maria Manuel Vieira