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Cautionary Tales in the Ethics of Lifelong Learning Policy and Management

A Book of Fables

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  • © 2004

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  1. Richard G. Bagnall

    1. Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia

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Part of the book series: Lifelong Learning Book Series (LLLB, volume 1)

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Table of contents (24 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. The Cultural Context

    • Richard G. Bagnall
    Pages 1-8

  3. The Ethical Perspective

    • Richard G. Bagnall
    Pages 9-13

  4. The Fable of Learning

    • Richard G. Bagnall
    Pages 15-21

  5. The Fable of the Individual

    • Richard G. Bagnall
    Pages 23-30

  6. The Fable of Outcomes

    • Richard G. Bagnall
    Pages 31-37

  7. The Fable of Context

    • Richard G. Bagnall
    Pages 39-45

  8. The Fable of Vocation

    • Richard G. Bagnall
    Pages 47-53

  9. The Fable of Education and Training

    • Richard G. Bagnall
    Pages 55-62

  10. The Fable of Education as Literacy

    • Richard G. Bagnall
    Pages 63-68

  11. The Fable of Accountability

    • Richard G. Bagnall
    Pages 69-75

  12. The Fable of Standards

    • Richard G. Bagnall
    Pages 77-82

  13. The Fable of Technique

    • Richard G. Bagnall
    Pages 83-88

  14. The Fable of Flexibility

    • Richard G. Bagnall
    Pages 89-95

  15. The Fable of the Educational Market

    • Richard G. Bagnall
    Pages 97-103

  16. The Fable of the Educational Contract

    • Richard G. Bagnall
    Pages 105-110

  17. The Fable of the Educational Project

    • Richard G. Bagnall
    Pages 111-116

  18. The Fable of the Educational Manager

    • Richard G. Bagnall
    Pages 117-124

  19. The Fable of the International Provider

    • Richard G. Bagnall
    Pages 125-131

  20. The Fable of the Educational Requirement

    • Richard G. Bagnall
    Pages 133-137
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About this book

This work is concerned with appraising the contemporary ethical impact of lifelong learning ideology and advocacy on education, through focusing on trends in educational policy and management that flow from the ideology. It has its origins in the author's concern that many of those trends are being defmed and promoted, or opposed, without an adequate understanding of their ethical dimensions. The 21 trends examined in this work are seen as defming important dimensions of the quite radical changes in educational policy and management that are flowing from the practical realisation of lifelong learning ideology and advocacy. In here evaluating those trends from an ethical perspective, the thesis is developed that they lead inevitably to distinctive ethical dilemmas or tensions in the lived experience of educational participants. The dilemmas, though, are not seen as realities that can intelligently be either avoided or resolved. They are, rather, inescapable features of the trends, although they and the experience of them may be managed intelligently to a greater or lesser extent. This analysis is premised on the belief that an understanding of the dilemmas may be of practical value in assisting educators, and policy makers and managers, to live and work more intelligently with them and to better manage the educational changes that are defmed by the trends. It may thereby contribute to moderating the excesses, sillinesses, and inanities so often evident in the directing and managing of refonns associated with the trends and to reduce the anguish and pain associated with them.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia

    Richard G. Bagnall

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Cautionary Tales in the Ethics of Lifelong Learning Policy and Management

  • Book Subtitle: A Book of Fables

  • Authors: Richard G. Bagnall

  • Series Title: Lifelong Learning Book Series

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-2215-9

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2004

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-2213-5Published: 30 April 2004

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-2214-2Published: 30 April 2004

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-2215-9Published: 31 May 2004

  • Series ISSN: 1871-322X

  • Series E-ISSN: 2730-5325

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVI, 193

  • Topics: Education, general, Administration, Organization and Leadership, Philosophy of Education, Ethics

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