Overview
- Introduces strategies for improving engagement of citizens in learning cities and regions through training and education
- Delivers innovative content on the economic development of city regions involving lifelong learning
- Reviews the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning initiative to conceptualize the learning city
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (25 chapters)
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The Global Perspective-Identifying a Need for Change
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Entrepreneurial Skills and Attitudes
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The University Perspective
Keywords
- Learning Cities
- Higher Education
- Entrepreneurship
- Human Geography
- Quality of Life Research
- City Development
- Entrepreneurial Development
- Entrepreneurial Skills
- Inclusivity
- Entrepreneurial Learning
- Knowledge Economy
- Cultural Growth
- Policy Makers
- Intrapreneur
- urban geography and urbanism
- sustainability
About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Raúl Valdés-Cotera is a Senior Programme Specialist at the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning and the Programme Manager of the UNESCO Global Network of Learning Cities. For more than ten years he has been working in international organisations in the field of lifelong learning and adult education. He has led various research and advocacy projects such as the regional report of the current situation for adult education in Latin America and more recently the Glossary for Adult Education in Latin America and the Caribbean. He co-edited (with J. Yang) Conceptual Evolution and Policy Developments in Lifelong Learning (UNESCO, 2011).
Jean Preece is an experienced ICT Programme Manager and European Project Manager in the Department for Adult Continuing Education. She has managed the training of over 3,000 disadvantaged community learners in ICT and personal development with great success in achieving employment outcomes, including self-employment. Her project 'Swansea Arrivals' supported refugees and asylum seekers to integrate into the community. She co-led a successful Grundtvig 3 year project (2003-2006) 'Parenting in a Multicultural European City' with eleven European partners. She has also participated in Transversal, Horizon, and Lingua projects, including the XPLOIT Multilateral projectwhich focused on the development of learning regions. Jean’s publications focus on the use of ICT training to enhance widening participation in higher education.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Entrepreneurial Learning City Regions
Book Subtitle: Delivering on the UNESCO 2013, Beijing Declaration on Building Learning Cities
Editors: Judith James, Jean Preece, Raúl Valdés-Cotera
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61130-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-61129-7Published: 28 September 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-87010-6Published: 11 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-61130-3Published: 21 September 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 435
Number of Illustrations: 38 b/w illustrations
Topics: Human Geography, Science Education, Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns), Entrepreneurship, Quality of Life Research, Sustainability Management