Table of Contents

Contents: Michael Kuhn: New Society Models for a New Millennium - Sketching the Global Discourses about a World Vision - Michael Kuhn: Inside Global Learning Societies - the War of Ideas of the Good World in the Global Battle of Cultures - John Field: Lifelong Learning and the Learning Society: The Evolution of Concepts and Research in the UK - Philippe Mehaut: Knowledge Economy, Learning Society and Lifelong Learning - A Review of the French Literature - Doris Weidemann: 'Learning Society' and 'Knowledge Society' - Concepts and Controversies in German Discourses - Paolo Landri/Domenico Maddaloni: A 'Blurred' Object: The Italian Discourses on the Concept of the Learning Society - Esther Oliver/Iolanda Tortajada: Education for Inclusion in the Information Society - Jari Kolehmainen: Perspectives on the Finnish Learning Society - John Field: Lifelong Learning and the Learning Society: Trends and Prospects in Europe - Ewa Slezak: The Learning Society in Poland - Jaroslav Kalous: Conceptualisation of the Learning Society in the Czech and Slovak Republics - Anna Muraveva: Towards a Learning Society: The Russian Experience - Daniel Schugurensky: The Learning Society in Canada and the US - Andre Elias Mazawi: Globalization, Development, and Policies of Knowledge and Learning in the Arab States - Catherine Casey: Towards a Learning Society: The New Zealand Experience - Beverley Axford/Terri Seddon: The Idea of a Learning Society: An Australian Perspective - Namchul Lee: The Lifelong Learning Society in Korea - Yukiko Sawano: The Learning Society in Japan - Meng HongWei: The Learning Society in China -Kai-ming Cheng: Learning Society: The East-Asian Perspective - Madhu Singh: Official Discourse and Challenges of Building a Learning Society in India - Shirley Walters: Knowledge and the Learning Society in South African Debates - Roseli Rodrigues de Mello/Paulo Eduardo Gomes Bento: Brazil: The Scientific Discourse about the Information Society - Donatilla Ferrada: Conceptualisation of the Learning Society in South America: Official, Scientific and Civil Organization Discourses.

About the Author

The Editor: Michael Kuhn is Policy Analyst and Director of the Forum for European Regional Research at the University of Bremen. His background is in educational theory, philosophy, and political science. He has worked in numerous international research projects mainly under Programmes of the European Union, including coordinating six socio-economic research projects under European Social Research Programmes. His recent publications include: Who is the European? - A New Global Player? (Peter Lang, 2007); Building the European Research Area: Socio-Economic Research in Practice (Peter Lang, 2005) co-edited with Svend Otto Remoe; and Towards a Knowledge Based Economy? Knowledge and Learning in European Educational Research (Peter Lang, 2006) co-edited with Massimo Tomassini and P. Robert-Jan Simons.