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Citation
(2000), "Towards the Learning Region: Education and Regional Innovation in the European Union and the United States", Education + Training, Vol. 42 No. 9. https://doi.org/10.1108/et.2000.00442iad.001
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Copyright © 2000, MCB UP Limited
Towards the Learning Region: Education and Regional Innovation in the European Union and the United States
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Towards the Learning Region: Education and Regional Innovation in the European Union and the United States
Barry Nyhan, Graham Attwell and Ludger Deitmer (Eds)European Centre for the Development of Vocational TrainingISBN 928288597619 euros2000
Keywords Education, Policy, Regional development, Innovation, Europe, USA
Towards the Learning Region examines the movement towards regional strategies to meet economic and social objectives that has been growing in recent years in Europe and the USA.
The driving force behind this movement is a belief that self-directing and outward-looking regional communities can confront the challenge of globalization and build sustainable social systems in a way that bigger national entities cannot. Regions are small enough to be flexible and manageable, but also big enough to flex their muscles on the international stage.
Community-oriented education and development agencies are beginning to play a major role in these developments. They are catalysts for the production of new ideas. But they are also acting as brokers and mediators, enabling groups from the public and private sectors to work together to develop the know-how to turn plans into reality. A region implementing an education-led innovation strategy can be called a "learning region".
The book provides an overview of innovative practices throughout regions in the USA and Europe. It contains 16 papers written by experts from the educational, economic and regional-development fields in the USA and the European Union. The papers analyse the ingredients of regional innovation and describe successful case studies.
The book is of interest to educators, instructors, community-development agents and researchers who want to know more about the area of community-oriented education and training. It has particular relevance to those with an interest in relations between the European Union and the USA.