Perspectives on Learning Cities and Regions: Policy, Practice and Participation

In this publication policy-makers, practitioners and researchers come together to demonstrate, in a wide variety of settings, how new initiatives to create learning cities and regions can improve dialogue between the practice and research communities. In demonstrating the productive outcomes of knowledge transfer, the book should serve to encourage those in government and in practice-leading roles to develop further the arrangements to facilitate the productive sharing and application of knowledge drawn from reflections on experience and from research.

Table of Contents:
Chapter 13. PENR3L and EUROlocal - facilitators of European regional economic, social and environmental development; Chapter 14. The art of managing networks and shaping constructive partnerships; Chapter 15. Social networks and social learning among small-scale rural non-farm enterprises: A case study in Chimanimani District in Zimbabwe; Chapter 16. Reforming education in Croatia: Shortcomings in the implementation of lifelong learning principles in practice; Chapter 17. Government's regional policy and its shaping of widening participation practice in England; Chapter 18. Learning cities: What do people think? Summary of a case study; Index

About the Author :
Norman Longworth has a varied background in schools, industry, universities and professional associations. Formerly manager of IBM's external education projects in Europe, President of the European Lifelong Learning Initiative and Visiting Professor at several European Universities, he wrote the EC policy document on Learning Regions and has also written well-known books on lifelong learning and learning regions. Michael Osborne is Professor of Adult and Lifelong Learning at the University of Glasgow, and experienced in adult education, VET and higher education research, development and evaluation. He is Director of the Centre for Research and Development in Adult and Lifelong Learning within the Faculty of Education and Co-director of the PASCAL Observatory on Place Management, Social Capital and Lifelong Learning. He was formerly Co-director of the Centre for Research in Lifelong Learning at the University of Stirling and has worked in the field of lifelong learning in the UK and beyond for 30 years.