Democracy, Lifelong Learning and the Learning Society: Active Citizenship in a Late Modern Age

This is a book with a difference: it produces a completely new perspective on lifelong learning and the learning society and locates them within humanity itself. Five themes run through this book:

• Humankind has always been aware of the imperfections of human society: as a consequence, it has looked back to a mythological past and forward to a utopian future that might be religious, political, economic or even educational to find something better.

• Lifelong learning as we currently see i...