About This Publication
Governments at all levels all over the world are committed to strengthening communities – that is, improving neighbourliness, mutual support and economic activity in the largest cities and the smallest rural settlements.
In this book, researchers, policy-makers and practitioners demonstrate, in a wide variety of settings, how they have developed new initiatives to strengthen communities, concentrating particularly on the role of education and training.
In this book, researchers, policy-makers and practitioners demonstrate, in a wide variety of settings, how they have developed new initiatives to strengthen communities, concentrating particularly on the role of education and training.
Contents
| Chapter 1 | Connecting research policy and practice in
building stronger communities Lesley Doyle and Peter Welsh |
| Part 1: | An international/national perspective |
| Chapter 2 | Lifelong learning and the learning society:
from concept to policy to practice? Hans Schuetze |
| Chapter 3 | Social networks and social exclusion: the case
of biotechnology in New Zealand Rob Strathdee |
| Chapter 4 | Complexity and learning regions: learning
regions as complex adaptive systems Ingunn Sandaker and Britt Andersen |
| Chapter 5 | Building human and social capital in
communities through education Barry McGaw |
| Chapter 6 | Higher education, lifelong learning and
regional development in Hungary Balázs Németh |
| Chapter 7 | Community education, learning communities and
national skill policy in Australia: is there light at the end of the tunnel?
Peter Kearns and Denise Reghenzani |
| Chapter 8 | Issues and challenges for sustainable
regeneration: a reflection on regeneration policy in Scotland John Tibbitt |
| Part 2: | Regional/local networks |
| Chapter 9 | Policy learning and transfer in regional
lifelong learning policies Paolo Federighi |
| Chapter 10 | Higher education and regional development Jaana Puukka |
| Chapter 11 | Commitment, research, connection and community:
learning in networks in regional development Anne Badenhorst |
| Chapter 12 | Connecting communities: an indigenous education
initiative in the Canberra region, Australia Carolyn Broadbent |
| Chapter 13 | Building virtual communities: ‘Youthcentral’ in
Victoria, Australia David Adams |
| Chapter 14 | Building capacity for rural health: the role of
boundary crossers in coalition maturity for partnerships with external
agents Sue Kilpatrick, Stuart Auckland, Susan Johns and Jessica Whelan |
| Chapter 15 | Co-investigation of social capital Dave Beck |
| Chapter 16 | Sustaining community leadership learning:
recent experience in Montana, USA Larry Swanson |
| Chapter 17 | Who will we become? Power, identities and
cultures in the context of notions of social capital and governance Gwenneth Marshall |
| Chapter 18 | Converging ideas for building stronger
communities David Adams |