Developments within the “knowledge society,” especially those
resulting from technological innovation, have intensified an interest
in the relationship between different contexts and multiple sites of
learning across what is often termed as formal, non-formal and
informal learning environments. The aim of this book is to trace
learning and experience across multiple sites and contexts as a means
to generate new knowledge about the borders and edges of different
practices and the boundary crossings these entail in the learning
lives of young people in times of dynamic societal, environmental,
economic, and technological change. The empirical research discussed
in this book has grown out of a Nordic network of researchers. The
research initiatives in the Nordic countries tend to avoid the more
spectacular debates over the future of the educational institutions
that tend to dominate and obscure discussions on education in the
knowledge society, and which look to models of informal learning,
whether in the “learning communities” of workplaces and families
or in the new socio-technical spaces of the Internet, as a source of
alternative educational strategies. Rather, Nordic researchers more
modestly ask whether it is possible to envisage new models of teaching
and learning which take seriously both the responsibility to social
justice and social wellbeing, which, at least rhetorically,
underpinned a commitment to mass education of the 20th century, as
well as to the radical challenges to traditional educational models
offered by the new socio-technical spaces and practices of the 21st
century.
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ISBN
9789463004145
Publisert
2018
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SensePublishers
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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