Unfolding Learning Societies: Challenges and Opportunities

Vimukt Shiksha Special Issue

March 2000

 

 

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Manish Jain                              Editor’s Note

 

Unmasking the Schooling Society

Pawan Gupta:                           Liberating Education from the Chains of Imperialism

Catherine Odora-Hoppers:       Turning the Monster on Its Head: Lifelong Learning Societies for All

Sangeeta Kamat:                      Education for What?: De-mystifying the World Bank Agenda

Dayal Chandra Soni:                 The Process of Your Life Should Be the Process of Your Education

Stephanie Pace Marshall:          A New Story for Learning and Schooling: A "New Mind" for the New Millenium

 

Learning Communities: Experiences and Explorations

John McClellan:                        Envisioning Learning Societies Across Multiple Dimensions

Norman Longworth:                 Lifelong Learning and Learning Communities: A Vision for the Future

Vidhi Jain & Manav:                 A Search for Meaning: Udaipur as a Learning City

Ron Burnett:                             The Challenge of Change in Creating Learning Communities

M. Srinivasan:                           Schools Beyond Walls: A Stepping-Stone to Learning Societies

Dee Dickinson:                         Learning Society of the Future: Questions to Consider

 

Conceptual Priorities

Jan Visser:                                Rethinking Learning: Implications for Policy, Research and Practice

Vivek Bhandari:                        The Artifice of Modernization: Post-coloniality and Beyond

Vachel Miller:                           Meaning, Purpose, and Connection: Spirituality in a Learning Society

Terry Ryan & John Abbott:       Re-connecting the Brain to Living and Learning

Anita Dighe:                              Diversity in Education in an Era of Globalization

Shilpa Jain:                               Rethinking Decentralization for Nurturing Learning Societies

Kishore Saint:                           Education and Svaraj in a Time of Svarth

 

 

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Editors: Manish Jain, Shilpa Jain, Sumi-Chandresh

 

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