Attention to Education in the Post-Industrial Society

2019 ◽  
pp. 135-152
Author(s):  
Christoffer Green-Pedersen
Keyword(s):  
Primary Schools ◽  
Party System ◽  
Knowledge Society ◽  
Industrial Society ◽  
Incentive Model ◽  
Key Factor ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Post Industrial ◽  
Policy Problems

This chapter provides an analysis of party system attention to education based on the issue incentive model. The analysis shows that large, mainstream parties’ incentives are the key factor in explaining the dynamics of party system attention to education. However, compared to the three issues analysed before, problem characteristics rather than coalition considerations and issue ownership shape the incentives of large, mainstream parties. The fact that education is an obtrusive valence issue relevant to more or less the whole population implies that it is an issue that large, mainstream parties cannot ignore if public debates about policy problems emerge. The increased focus on education and human capital in the knowledge society has thus led to an increased focus on education. This focus has clearly been most pronounced in countries where it has materialized in a debate about the quality of primary schools. In Denmark, and later on also in Sweden, this debate came as a reaction to what was seen as disappointing PISA scores. In the UK, the PISA scores played a limited role in the debate about primary schools.

Introduction

2010 ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Stephen M. Mutula
Keyword(s):  
Information Society ◽  
Knowledge Society ◽  
Information Economics ◽  
Digital Economy ◽  
Industrial Society ◽  
Information Economy ◽  
Learning Society ◽  
Production Distribution ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Post Industrial

The ‘Digital economy’ is sometimes used synonymously with ‘information society’, which emerged back in the 1960s to describe a futuristic society that is highly dependent on information (Bridges.org, 2001; Computer Systems Policy Projects, 2000). Martin (1997:87) further associates the concept with ‘information economics’ by defining it as a society in which there is a growing rate in the production, distribution and use of information. The ‘Digital economy’, as term and concept, has been used in this book in keeping with ‘information society’ as espoused by Schienstock et al. (1999), who view it from an interdisciplinary perspective to describe: An information economy;A post-industrial society; The end of the industrial labour society; A knowledge society; An ‘informatized’ industrial society; and A learning society.

scholarly journals European Creativity and Urban Regeneration

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 127
Author(s):  
Ana Oliveira ◽  
Fernando Paulino
Keyword(s):  
Performing Arts ◽  
Creative Industries ◽  
Industrial Society ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Art Galleries ◽  
Creative City ◽  
Ultimate Objective ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Post Industrial ◽  
Industrial Societies

<p class="Corpo">Since the end of the 1980s, in the light of research conducted by Charles Landry that theorized and formalized the concept of the Creative City, Creativity, along with other economic activities, has been considered as something that marks the life of cities.<br />Under its sign, a large part of post-industrial societies found the necessary momentum for urban and economic revitalisation, responding to the stagnation resulting from the collapse of industrial society (Albuquerque, 2006). Through the production of art and the strengthening of its cultural fabric, through the support of artists and infrastructures, Creative Industries grew and developed. Cities like Manchester, London and Liverpool saw their economy grow, the latter becoming a major cultural hub in the UK, incorporating music, performing arts, museums and art galleries, as well as an active and attractive nightlife.<br />Through a literature review focused on the key concepts and studies relating to the economic potential of Creativity, we seek to understand Creativity’s state, its impact and economic impulse and the importance of cultural policies, with the ultimate objective of understanding Creative and Cultural Industries as a secure source of sustainability for the future.</p>

scholarly journals SHAPING THE CONCEPT OF KNOWLEDGE-BASED SOCIETIES AS A BASIC CONCEPT OF UNESCO

2020 ◽  
pp. 82-91
Author(s):  
Ольга Юрьевна Морозова
Keyword(s):  
Basic Concept ◽  
Information Society ◽  
Knowledge Society ◽  
Comprehensive Approach ◽  
Industrial Society ◽  
Policy Documents ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Concepts Of Knowledge ◽  
Education Culture ◽  
Post Industrial

Настоящая статья посвящена исследованию генезиса и содержания социофилософского термина «общество знания» с опорой на ключевые программные документы ЮНЕСКО (доклады 2005 и 2009 гг.). Анализируется, в первую очередь, соотношение понятий «общество знания», «информационное общество» и «посткапитализм» («постиндустриальное общество») на основе работ классических (1960-1990 гг.) и современных исследователей данного вопроса. Кроме того, в статье проанализированы основные сферы «общества знания» (экономика, образование, культура и право), что позволяет путем синтеза доклада ЮНЕСКО и основных научных трудов в данной области выстроить целостную концепцию «общества знания». This article is devoted to the study of the genesis and content of the socio-philosophical term «knowledge society» based on the key UNESCO policy documents (Reports of 2005 and 2009). The author analyzes, first of all, the correlation of the concepts of «knowledge society», «information society» and «post-capitalism» (post-industrial society) on the basis of the works of classical (1960-1990s) and contemporary researchers of this issue. In addition, the article examines the main areas of the «knowledge society» (economy, education, culture and law), thus proposing on the basis of the UNESCO Report and the main scholarly works in this area comprehensive approach to building a platform of the «knowledge society».

scholarly journals On natural nihilism of analysts of the post-industrial society

2019 ◽  
pp. 121-130
Author(s):  
Yu. N. Gladkiy ◽  
V. D. Sukhorukov
Keyword(s):  
Agricultural Sector ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Knowledge Society ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Industrial Society ◽  
Recreation Areas ◽  
Geographical Environment ◽  
Normal Environment ◽  
Future Society ◽  
Post Industrial

Attention is drawn to the serious miscalculations of well-known theorists of post-industrial society, which limited to sociological and economic analysis and underestimating the role of the geographical environment. Recognizing the need to create a normal environment (D. Bell), the theorists of the society of the future, in fact, abstract from the biosphere basis of Man, from the accelerating transformation of the age-old biogeochemical cycle of substances on the planet and dangerous damage to the film of life. This position is associated by the authors with geographical nihilism. They are convinced that the recognition of such main source of modern progress as knowledge, which can change the world around us, is not a reason to articulate future society in isolation from the natural world. No post-economic society can function without extractive industries, agricultural sector, natural recreation areas, etc. It is emphasized that the idea of a non-natural society is promoted by well-known authors without taking into account at least half of humanity, where poverty, disease, hunger and malnutrition continue to tear society at the seams and where the golden billion draws raw materials. It is concluded that the creation of a knowledge society in Russia is unthinkable without the use of abundant natural resources necessary for the multi-cost replacement of the main part of the production funds and the accumulation of budgetary funds.

The Reshaping of West European Party Politics

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christoffer Green-Pedersen
Keyword(s):  
Political Parties ◽  
Party System ◽  
Party Politics ◽  
Policy Issues ◽  
New Politics ◽  
Incentive Model ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Issue Content ◽  
West European

Long gone are the times when class-based political parties with extensive membership dominated politics. Instead, party politics has become issue-based. Surprisingly few studies have focused on how the issue content of West European party politics has developed over the past decades. Empirically, this books studies party politics in Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, and the UK from 1980 and onwards. The book highlights the more complex party system agenda with the decline, but not disappearance, of macroeconomic issues as well as the rise in ‘new politics’ issues together with education and health care. Moreover, various ‘new politics’ issues such as immigration, the environment, and European integration have seen very different trajectories. To explain the development of the individual issues, the book develops a new theoretical model labelled the ‘issue incentive model’ of party system attention. The aim of the model is to explain how much attention issues get throughout the party system, which is labelled ‘the party system agenda’. To explain the development of the party system agenda, one needs to focus on the incentives that individual policy issues offer to large, mainstream parties, i.e. the typical Social Democratic, Christian Democratic, or Conservative/Liberal parties that have dominated West European governments for decades. The core idea of the model is that the incentives that individual policy issues offer to these vote- and office-seeking parties depend on three factors, namely issue characteristics, issue ownership, and coalition considerations. The issue incentive model builds on and develops a top-down perspective on which the issue content of party politics is determined by the strategic considerations of political parties and their competition with each other.

scholarly journals Features of Knowledge Quality of University Students in Ukraine

2017 ◽  
Vol 76 ◽  
pp. 36-42
Author(s):  
Viacheslav Oleksenko
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
University Students ◽  
The State ◽  
Industrial Society ◽  
Quality Of Education ◽  
Professional Competency ◽  
Knowledge Quality ◽  
Post Industrial

In a highly technological post-industrial society the quality of education is an important factor in providing such a level of life and professional competency of a person that would satisfy both the demands of an individual and the state. The quality of the whole higher education is influenced by the quality of students' knowledge which is acquired at educational classes. Development of studactive classes has brought forward the problem of research of their efficiency, in particular in the aspect of potential quality of knowledge. The results of the experiment are outlined, the main aim of which was to identify the effect of studactive classes on knowledge quality of university students. Monitoring of quality of students' knowledge at studactive classes is realized. It is revealed that students who were taught in a studactive way have better features of knowledge quality (fullness, deepness, system character, operative character and flexibility) comparing with those who were taught in a traditional way. It is proved that knowledge quality of university students can be improved through implementing studactive classes into the pedagogical process. The study was conducted in Ukraine.

From the Garden of Eden to the Knowledge Society

2011 ◽  
pp. 232-252
Author(s):  
Eliezer Geisler
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Workers ◽  
Knowledge Society ◽  
Good Explanation ◽  
Industrial Society ◽  
Specialized Knowledge ◽  
Garden Of Eden ◽  
The Past ◽  
Peter Drucker ◽  
Post Industrial

In the contemporary post-industrial society, we are continually creating and accumulating knowledge. There seems to be an unending quest to know more about less. Peter Drucker (1994) had a good explanation. He argued that in the past, workers in farming and even in factories were generalists, whereas knowledge workers are highly specialized. One of the crucial skills they develop is their ability to learn how to acquire additional specialized knowledge.

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