A Web of Learning Opportunities

Autor/inn/en	Andersen, Britt; Ree, Gunnar; Sandaker, Ingunn
Titel	A Web of Learning Opportunities
Quelle	In: European Journal of Education, 45 (2010) 3, S.481-493 (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0141-8211
Schlagwörter	Lifelong Learning; Networks; Educational Opportunities; Systems Approach; Educational Policy; Educational Development; Educational Cooperation; Regional Programs; Educational Principles + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Life-long learning; Lebenslanges Lernen; Bildungsangebot; Bildungschance; Systemischer Ansatz; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Bildungsentwicklung; Education; cooperation; Kooperation; Regional program; Regional programme; Regionalprogramm; Bildungsprinzip
Abstract	For at least two decades, politicians, academics and other stakeholders have advocated cooperation across sectors, administrative layers and other institutionalised boundaries to achieve objectives of what are called "learning regions" and the "lifelong learning perspective". Boundaries between geographical, institutional and sectors are becoming more porous. Regions and cities may be seen as complex adaptive systems (CAS), and hence do not necessarily follow the logic of formal institutions. While formal institutions have innate interests in regulating interaction and communication between their members, networks develop according to evolutionary or selectionist dynamics, in that the processes of change can be seen as analogous to natural (Darwinian) selection. Networks may be seen as the architecture of complex systems. Research on networks has been relatively extensive in the last 20 to 30 years in mathematics, sociology, anthropology, and biology. There is an emerging science of networks that studies the structure and function of systems. There is also substantial research on the features in the interconnectedness or interdependencies within the system that contribute to explaining the functionality of that system. In this perspective, we may view a learning region as a web of learning opportunities. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10