Democracy, Lifelong Learning and the Learning Society: Active Citizenship in a Late Modern Age

by Peter Jarvis

Book Overview

This is a book with a difference: it produces a completely new perspective on lifelong learning and the learning society and locates them within humanity itself. Five themes run through this book:

Humankind has always been aware of the imperfections of human society: as a consequence, it has looked back to a mythological past and forward to a utopian future that might be religious, political, economic or even educational to find...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415355451
• ISBN13: 9780415355452
• Release Date: June 2008
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"