Learning Societies: Challenges and Opportunities

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Editor's Note: Manish Jain: Learning Societies: A Reflective and Generative Framework

I. Unmasking the Schooling Society
- Pawan Gupta: Liberating Education from the Chains of Imperialism
- Catherine Odora-Hoppers: Turning the Monster on Its Head: Lifelong Learning Societies for All
- Sangeeta Kamat: Education for What?: De-mystifying the World Bank Agenda
- Dayal Chandra Soni: The Process of Your Life Should Be the Process of Your Education
- Stephanie Pace Marshall: A New Story for Learning and Schooling: A "New Mind" for the New Millenium

II. Learning Communities: Experiences and Explorations
- John McClellan: Envisioning Learning Societies Across Multiple Dimensions
- Norman Longworth: Lifelong Learning and Learning Communities: A Vision for the Future
- Vidhi Jain & Manav: A Search for Meaning: Udaipur as a Learning City
- Ron Burnett: The Challenge of Change in Creating Learning Communities
- M. Srinivasan: Schools Beyond Walls: A Stepping-Stone to Learning Societies
- Dee Dickensen: Learning Society of the Future: Questions to Consider

III. Conceptual Priorities
- Jan Visser: Rethinking Learning: Implications for Policy, Research and Practice
- Vivek Bhandari: The Artifice of Modernization: Post-coloniality and Beyond
- Vachel Miller: Meaning, Purpose, and Connection: Spirituality in a Learning Society
- Terry Ryan & John Abbott: Re-connecting the Brain to Living and Learning
- Anita Dighe: Diversity in Education in an Era of Globalization
- Shilpa Jain: Rethinking Decentralization for Nurturing Learning Societies
- Kishore Saint: Education and Svaraj in a Time of Svarth