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This text outlines the future roles of schools, business and industry, higher and adult education. Using examples of learning communities that are adapting for the future, the author describes the conditions which lifelong learning can accelerate as an agent for change. Case studies include Sunderland University (bringing learning to the people), Kent (a learning region), Goteborg (a learning city) and Scotland (a learning nation).

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This very readable and practical book focuses on the growing trends in lifelong-learning programs and activities worldwide. Economic, educational, and political forces are moving the world toward a global society in which lifelong learning will be critical for any institution, community, or nation to prosper in the next millennium. Longworth, who is very well qualified to discuss this topic, focuses on examples principally from the UK and Europe related to this important, growing trend. He discusses what organizational forms and institutional activities are being developed, and what the future holds. He provides many useful lists, tables, and definitions that will help the reader to examine society's paradigm shift. All the chapters are efficiently organized and well researched. This book will appeal not only to general readers but to graduate students in a wide variety of areas, faculty, and professional practitioners in the area of education. --- W. C. Hine, Eastern Illinois University in CHOICE

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Longworth, Norman (Vice President, World Initiative on Lifelong Learning),

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