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THE LEARNING SOCIETY IN A POSTMODERN WORLD - KE...

Lifelong learning has become a key concern as the focus of educational policy has shifted from
mass schooling toward the learning society. The shift started in the mid 1960s and early 1970s
under the impetus of a group of writers and adult educators  gravitating around UNESCO  with a
humanist philosophy and a leftist agenda. The vocabulary of that movement was appropriated in
the 1990s by other interests with a very different performativist agenda emphasizing
effectiveness and economic outcomes. This change of interest  described in the book  has
signified the death of education. The Learning Society in a Postmodern World explores different
theoretical resources to respond to this situation  mainly those that propose some restoration
of an educated public or  to the contrary  individual self-creation  and uses the works of a
broad range of philosophers and thinkers - notably MacIntyre  Habermas  Foucault  Derrida 
Rorty  and Baudrillard. In addition  it raises important questions about postmodern and
poststructuralist responses to education in the postmodern world. Its comprehensiveness and
historical background make it an essential textbook for theoretical courses in lifelong
learning and in educational theory in general. A broad range of interests and subject matter
make it important reading for educators  policy specialists  media specialists  researchers on
the subject of lifelong learning and on the relation between education and the postmodern world
political theorists  philosophers  and philosophers of education.

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