Knowledge, Power And Learning

This is a very useful collection. It brings a wide range of articles onaspects of learning in different settings from high tech companies inCambridge to school... » 

This is a very useful collection. It brings a wide range of articles onaspects of learning in different settings from high tech companies inCambridge to school classrooms Widening Participation and Lifelong LearningThis book will stimulate thought in any reader and could be of interest toacademics in all subjects or to educational developers although it may be ofparticular use to students of cultural studies education and communications EscalateKnowledge Power and Learning will be of interest to many adult educators whoare interested in the lifelong learning age and makes too a contribution tothe relatively scarce literature concerned with the school curriculum in thislifelong learning perspective Studies in the Education of AdultsNew technologies are altering the relationship between knowledge power andlearning. The explosion of information resulting from the proliferation ofInternet use has led to new questions about the nature of knowledge and how itis legitimated. At the same time the new emphasis on learning as a lifelongprocess is changing relationships between teachers and learners and focusing onthe multiplicity of sites in which learning can take place. This book considersthe influence of the information age on the changing relationship betweenpower and knowledge and how this affects learning in a wide range ofsituations from the school to the learning organization and from the musicalconservatoire to the hightech workplace. «