Bell's book, The Coming of Post-Industrial Society, charted an economic shift that had already begun, from an industrial economy in which most people were engaged in producing things, to a post-industrial economy in which the workforce ...
Creative Professionalism: The Role of Teachers in the Knowledge Society
This book discusses learning and teaching with modern technology in the new knowledge society.
This book explores and compares the systems of doctoral education in twelve higher education systems, consisting of four systems in East Asia, four in Europe and four Anglo-American systems.
The book is written for everybody who works professionally with education, knowledge and knowledge management, including educational researchers, e-learning specialists, teachers and students at teacher training colleges - and for everybody ...
This book presents an entirely new approach to professional learning based on perspectives of the knowledge society and, in particular, an interpretation of Knorr Cetina’s work on scientific ‘epistemic cultures’.
The essays in this book examine the multiple, subtle, yet consequential ways in which writing is epistemic, articulating the central role of writing in creating, shaping, sharing, and contesting knowledge in a range of human activities in ...
Lifelong learning is now high on most governments' policy agendas. But how much progress has been made in developing lifelong learning over the past 30 years, and what are the...
A multidisciplinary analysis of learning in contemporary society. In doing so, the work covers all of the key terms in the modern educators' lexicon - lifelong learning, the learning society, learning organizations, the knowledge society.
The Nexus of National Systems of Innovation and Higher Education Timo Aarrevaara, Martin Finkelstein, Glen A. Jones, ... At the same time, in order to encourage universities to develop excellence in teaching models and enhance students' ...
This book examines, from an Asian perspective, the debates about how higher education should change.