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Beyond the Learning Society: Globalisation and the Moral Imperative for Reflective Social Change
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Jarvis, Peter – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2006
The argument of this paper is that the learning society, as presented by the dominant discourse, has emphasised scientific rationality and work-life learning to the exclusion of both a comprehensive understanding of lifelong learning and also the breadth of human experience and knowledge. This is because global capitalism has emphasised scientific…
Descriptors: Social Systems, Social Change, Information Technology, Lifelong Learning