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Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2001-01-18
Total Pages: 143
ISBN-13: 9264189718
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIs there a "new learning economy"? This publication, which views the debate from the perspective of a regional learning economy, clearly answers in the affirmative.
Author: Pauline Lipman
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-05-13
Total Pages: 238
ISBN-13: 1136759999
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUrban education and its contexts have changed in powerful ways. Old paradigms are being eclipsed by global forces of privatization and markets and new articulations of race, class, and urban space. These factors and more set the stage for Pauline Lipman's insightful analysis of the relationship between education policy and the neoliberal economic, political, and ideological processes that are reshaping cities in the United States and around the globe. Using Chicago as a case study of the interconnectedness of neoliberal urban policies on housing, economic development, race, and education, Lipman explores larger implications for equity, justice, and "the right to the city". She draws on scholarship in critical geography, urban sociology and anthropology, education policy, and critical analyses of race. Her synthesis of these lenses gives added weight to her critical appraisal and hope for the future, offering a significant contribution to current arguments about urban schooling and how we think about relations between neoliberal education reforms and the transformation of cities. By examining the cultural politics of why and how these relationships resonate with people's lived experience, Lipman pushes the analysis one step further toward a new educational and social paradigm rooted in radical political and economic democracy.
Author: Norman Longworth
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006-09-27
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13: 1134195133
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis indispensible book for managers, professionals, administrators and stakeholders in local and regional authorities describes how and why learning cities, towns and regions are helping to create a better future for all, and the tools and learning materials that will help them do so.
Author: Judith James
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2017-09-21
Total Pages: 437
ISBN-13: 3319611305
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book proposes an alternative strategy to improve and sustain prosperity, through the creation of an entrepreneurial culture in learning cities or city regions. The edited collection provides insights into how entrepreneurship, education, job creation and social inclusion can be aligned through entrepreneurial learning, in the context of territorial development. With rich and varied contributions from a wide field, including policy makers, entrepreneurs, an investment banker, leaders of universities and councils, the voluntary sector, scientists, educators and students, it reviews and assesses how learning cities and regions may become more prosperous by investing in the development of entrepreneurial skills throughout lifelong learning. Reinforced by examples on developing and retaining entrepreneurial people, this book contributes to our understanding of how entrepreneurial learning can be fostered in different city and city-region contexts. It makes an interesting contribution to the field in terms of mapping out complex issues and testing the practical validity of the concept, while also providing rich and insightful case studies centred on the Welsh experience with entrepreneurial learning city regions. The high quality international contributions demonstrate the new worldwide interest in developing an entrepreneurial culture for the benefit of a city or region, rather than an entrepreneurial mind-set for individual benefit. This fascinating subject will be of interest to many social scientists, policymakers, and practitioners. It will be found especially valuable for professionals involved in economic, inclusive and sustainable city or regional development.
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2012-01-03
Total Pages: 253
ISBN-13: 926402803X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines how the University of Arizona and community colleges can fuel growth and create high quality jobs in an area that ranks near the bottom third of US cities in per capita income.
Author: Tassilo Herrschel
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-01-03
Total Pages: 245
ISBN-13: 1317934091
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book investigates the ways in which city regions view themselves as single entities, how they are governed, what is meant by ‘governance’, why the question of city-regional governance matters, and the extent to which the balance between internal and external factors is important for finding governance solutions. Examples from North America and Europe are compared and contrasted to gain a better understanding of what matters ‘on the ground’ to people and policy makers when seeking answers to the challenges of a globalised, rapidly changing world. In order to analyse the conditions involved in making local decisions, the author looks at the impact of established policy-making practices, socio-economic patterns among the population, existing views of the ‘local’ and the ‘regional’ and their respective roles among the electorate and policy makers, and the scope for building city-regional governance under given statutory and fiscal provisions. The complex interaction of these factors is shown to produce place-specific forms and modi operandi for governing city regions as local-regional constructs. This book will be of interest to urban and regional policy makers and scholars working in the fields of economic geography and political geography.
Author: Leodis Scott
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2015-03-20
Total Pages: 106
ISBN-13: 1119075319
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLearning cities call for a connection of adult education to elementary, secondary, and postsecondary institutions along with vocational and corporate workspaces. This volume considers how “learning cities for adult learners” could be created in America that promote lifelong learning and education. Encouraging a widespread approach to educate and learn across disciplines, within communities, and inside the minds of all people, topics covered include: • workplace and organizational learning, • community engagement and service learning, • public libraries and cooperative extension, and • leisure, recreation, and public health education. This is the 145th volume of the Jossey Bass series New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education. Noted for its depth of coverage, it explores issues of common interest to instructors, administrators, counselors, and policymakers in a broad range of education settings, such as colleges and universities, extension programs, businesses, libraries, and museums.
Author: Richard Edwards
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006-11-22
Total Pages: 297
ISBN-13: 1134213956
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book weaves together different strands of research in the area of lifelong learning that concentrates particularly on learning in alternative settings and ways, such experiential learning and informal and community learning. Drawing upon international research, the book examines how these strands of research can contribute to each other. The contributions to this book are based on material presented at a conference at the Centre for Research in Lifelong Learning, UK, and they focus on research into key issues of policy and practice in lifelong learning. Establishing a wider framework for debate about the meaning and significance of lifelong learning, this timely and thought-provoking book provides practitioners in the field with a relevant and current discussion on some very important ideas about non-formal education.
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Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2021-06-01
Total Pages: 813
ISBN-13: 0197506720
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis Handbook provides a comprehensive and up-to-date examination of lifelong learning. Across 38 chapters, including twelve that are brand new to this edition, the approach is interdisciplinary, spanning human resources development, adult learning (educational perspective), psychology, career and vocational learning, management and executive development, cultural anthropology, the humanities, and gerontology. This volume covers trends that contribute to the need for continuous learning, considers psychological characteristics that relate to the drive to learn, reviews existing theory and research on adult learning, describes training methods and learning technologies for instructional design, and explores current and future challenges to support continuous learning.
Author: Yigitcanlar, Tan
Publisher: IGI Global
Published: 2008-02-28
Total Pages: 390
ISBN-13: 1599048418
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplores the utilization of urban technology to support knowledge city initiatives, providing fundamental techniques and processes for the successful integration of information technologies and urban production. Presents research on a multitude of cutting-edge urban information communication technology issues.
