Publisher's Synopsis
Learning cities, learning regions, and especially learning communities have become widely used terms and ideas. They are attractive to policy-makers and much argued over among academics. This briefing paper explores the language and context of learning communities. In response to the concept of the learning community as a possible approach to increasing educational participation, it reviews developments and experiences around this and related initiatives and ideas. Based on comparison with approaches in other parts of the world, it identifies key issues that need to be considered as we continue to explore ways of treating community as a more positive and effective part of attempts to become an active learning society.
