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Synopsis
Designing the Just Learning Society presents an historically attuned and critical theoretical inquiry into the discourse of the learning society, providing a coherent framework for understanding how adults learn in the key domains of human interaction: state, civil society, and workplace. Grappling with contemporary issues, Welton, of Athabasca University, Canada, explores the way power and money distort learning in civil society, the workplace and in cultural life. He asserts that achieving a just learning society calls for collective action to transform organisational and associational life with the recognition that human beings have the capacity for self-determination and self-expression. Welton contends that the alleged emergence of a knowledge society or a learning society cannot be accepted as either new or good, and that learning is not an essentially good thing. Indeed, that learning is harnessed in the modern world to the money-code and chan
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Dr Michael Welton is an accomplished educator, programme designer, researcher, writer and international public speaker renowned for pedagogic creativity and research excellence in historical and critical studies of adult learning over the past twenty-five years. He won the prestigious AAACE award for best research for his biographical study of Moses Coady and has successfully established and maintained graduate adult education programmes in both Canada and Jamaica, receiving an award for 'Outstanding contribution to the development of postgraduate programme in Adult Education in Jamaica.' Dr Welton is the author of numerous authoritative books, essays and reviews and was former president of the Canadian Association for the Study of Adult Education.
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