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An early, defining, contribution was made by Donald Schon (1963, 1967, 1973). He provided a theoretical framework linking the experience of living in a situation of an increasing change with the need for learning.
The loss of the stable state means that our society and all of its institutions are in continuous processes of transformation. We cannot expect new stable states that will endure for our own lifetimes.
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Giorgio BertiniToday there is much talk of the learning organization, the knowledge economy and the like. The 'learning society' is an aspect of this movement to look beyond formal educational environments, and to locate learning as a quality not just of individuals but
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Allan BesselinkThe idea of the learning society has featured strongly in recent pronouncements around adult and lifelong learning. But what actually is the learning society?
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linkmessI went to a Hutchins model school at Sonoma State in California for a couple years. The model was gradeless, testless, seminars of eight to twelve students pitted against each other for three hours of intense disucssion on wide ranging reading - one lect
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education was not a segregated activity, conducted for certain hours, in certain places, at a certain time of life. It was the aim of the society. The city educated the man. The Athenian was educated by culture, by paideia. (Hutchins 1970: 133) Slavery made this possible – releasing citizens to participate in the life of the city. Hutchins argument was that "machines can do for modern man what slavery did for the fortunate few in Athens" (op. cit.).
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