210 pages
228mm x 145mm
ISBN-10: 1 85856 248 1
ISBN-13: 978 1 85856 248 3
February 2003

This book examines how compelling or dissonant worldviews affect the way people learn and organisations change. The cultures of managerialism and 'performance', the rhetoric of lifelong learning, and the challenges of globalisation and international competition create pressures which are unlikely to abate. In every educational sector, teachers and students have to cope with new, complex and often conflicting values and demands.

The contributions consider these complex issues in light of national cultures, professional cultures, disciplinary cultures, formal and informal cultures and of cultures past, present and future. They draw on multiple disciplines and discourses - sociocultural studies and cultural psychology, sociology, organisational development, policy studies, management theory, political and economic theory - so as to develop an approach to the complexity of learning today that will enable us to maximise the quality of educational provision for the 21st century.

The editors teach at the University of Bristol. James Wertsch, Visiting Professor from the University of Washington, provides the afterword to the book.

Learning and Teaching Where Worldviews Meet will have international appeal and is addressed to educationalists in every discipline and sector and to those working in cultural studies.

'...the book is rich in content and is the sort of book one would dip in and out of, depending on topic of interest.' - Educational Review
'This engaging.. book will be of interest and relevance to all those engaged in education...' - The Development Education Journal.