Designing the Just Learning Society: A Critical Inquiry - Softcover

Welton, Michael R.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1862012423 ISBN 13: 9781862012424

Publisher: National Institute of Adult Continuing Education, 2005

Synopsis

Designing the Just Learning Society presents an historically attuned and critical theoretical inquiry into the discourse of the learning society, providing a coherent framework for understanding how adults learn in the key domains of human interaction: state, civil society, and workplace. Grappling with contemporary issues, Welton, of Athabasca University, Canada, explores the way power and money distort learning in civil society, the workplace and in cultural life. He asserts that achieving a just learning society calls for collective action to transform organisational and associational life with the recognition that human beings have the capacity for self-determination and self-expression. Welton contends that the alleged emergence of a 'knowledge society' or a 'learning society' cannot be accepted as either new or good, and that 'learning' is not an essentially good thing. Indeed, that learning is harnessed in the modern world to the money-code and channels human energies and capacities in destructive directions. This passionate text speaks directly to an important area of professional and scholarly debate in adult education worldwide and, by engaging many voices, allows the reader to enter into the dialogue.

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Designing the just learning society: a critical inquiry. by Michael Welton. Published by NIACE 2005. Paperback in very good condition. Text has been annotated in pencil.Presenting an historically attuned and theoretical inquiry into the discourse of the learning society.

Synopsis

Adult education has taken centre stage in global discussion about the future of humankind. The ideal of the learning society, the learning organisation and the empowered citizen present a radical reorientation for educators everywhere. Designing the just learning society rigorously examines this ideal - its historical origins in early modernity and rhetorical uses - in order to understand the cultural and institutional transformations necessary to create a just learning society. This passionate text speaks directly to an important body of professional and scholarly debate in adult education worldwide. It will be of great interest to government and adult education policy-makers, theorists, practitioners, organisational development proponents and social movement activists. It could be read by anyone interested in how we might create a more just and humane society. The learning focus distinguishes this text from others grappling with contemporary issues.

Edition details

• Publisher: National Institute of Adult Continuing Education
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1862012423
• ISBN 13: 9781862012424
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 250