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Six Ages towards a Learning Region--A Retrospective
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Longworth, Norman; Osborne, Michael – European Journal of Education, 2010
Learning Cities and Learning Regions are terms now in common use as a result of the growing importance of lifelong learning concepts to the economic, social and environmental future of people and places. Why "learning" regions? Why not intelligent, creative, clever, smart or knowledge regions? In truth, all of these can, and some do,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Lifelong Learning, Social Capital, Definitions