The ‘learning society’ expresses principles of a universal humanity and a promise of progress that seem to transcend the nation. The paper indicates how this society is governed in the name of a cosmopolitan ideal that despite its universal pretensions embodies particular inclusions and exclusions. These occur through inscribing distinctions and differentiations between the characteristics of those who embody a cosmopolitan reason that brings social progress and personal fulfilment and those who do not embody the cosmopolitan principles of civility and normalcy. Mapping the circulation of the notion of the ‘learning society’ in arenas of Swedish health and criminal justice, and Swedish and US school reforms is to examine the mode of life of the citizen of this society, the learner, as an ‘unfinished cosmopolitanism’ and also directs attention to its ‘other(s)’—those that are outside.

Reframing Educational Thought, Subjects And Technologies Of The Future In The Early 2000.

The Learning Society, the Unfinished Cosmopolitan, and Governing Education, Public Health and Crime Prevention at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century.

Learning Society, Cosmopolitan, Public Health, Criminal Prevent Today. The learning society expresses principles of a universal humanity and a promise of progress that seem to transcend the nation. ...

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Sociedade da Aprendizagem, Cosmopolitismo, saúde Pública e Prevenção à Criminalidade

We are witnessing today the ideas of the American philosopher and social theorist John Dewey being revisited and revived. In the Swedish context this renewed interest is manifested in rather a constructivist way. Dewey’s thought on, for example, freedom, democracy, community, and communication during the early twentieth century is again being inscribed in contemporary narratives about society and citizens in relation to the future, that is, the constructivist project as shaping the current conditions for self-governance in the name of those concepts.

Dewey as an Epistemic Figure in the Swedish Discourse on Governing the Self.

Denna artikel ar ett forsok att forsta de omvandlingar som pagar inom dagens svenska kommunala vuxenutbildning. Pedagogisk forskning om pagaende omvandlingar av utbildningssystem visar pa en proces ...

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Reframing Educational Thought, Subjects And Technologies Of The Future In The Early 2000.

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The Learning Society, the Unfinished Cosmopolitan, and Governing Education, Public Health and Crime Prevention at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century.

Sociedade da Aprendizagem, Cosmopolitismo, saúde Pública e Prevenção à Criminalidade

Dewey as an Epistemic Figure in the Swedish Discourse on Governing the Self.

För EU i tiden: En betraktelse över svensk kommunal vuxenutbildning

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