Local Development, Social Capital and Lifelong Learning

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Local Development, Social Capital and Lifelong
Learning

• Tom Schuller CERI/OECD
• IDELE workshop, CEDEFOP, April 2005

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Directorate For Financial Fiscal and Enterprise
Affairs
Directorate for Employment Labour and Social
Affairs
Trade Directorate
Economics Department
Directorate for Education
COUNCIL
Directorate for Public Management and
Territorial Development
SECRETARIAT
Centre for Educational Research and
Innovation (CERI)
COMMITTEES
Statistics Directorate
Directorate for Food Agriculture and Fisheries
Environment Directorate
Directorate for Science Technology and Industry
Development Co-operation Directorate
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Our programme

• Lifelong learning provides the overarching
  context. Within that our key themes are

• Innovation and knowledge management.
• Human and social capital.
• A futures focus.
• Learning and teaching.

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Relevant CERI/OECD work

• City Strategies for Lifelong Learning (1991)
• Cities and Regions in the New Learning Economy
  (2001)
• OECD Growth Strategy (2001)
• Programme on Regional Development and HE (IMHE)
• Programme on City Competitiveness (GOV)

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Issues from the IDELE framework

• Desired outcomes
• Local entity
• Distributional issues
• Stayers and movers

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City Competitiveness Structural Assets(source
van der Winde 2005)

• Knowledge Base
• Infrastructure (institutions technologies)
• qualifications/skills (but measures?)

Quality of Life (outcome or instrument?) Divers
ity (but match with cohesion) Equity
(including the efficiency of distribution)
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• SC DEFINITIONS
• Networks together with shared norms, values and
  understandings that facilitate cooperation within
  or among groups.
• (The Wellbeing of Nations The Role of Human and
  Social Capital, 2001)
• Bonding people like you - getting by in life
• Bridging people not like you - getting on in
  life
• Linking people at different level access to
  resources and knowledge

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Education and SC

• SC enables HC investment to be realised
• Education sustains SC
• SC in a knowledge economy trust and quality

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Cyberinfrastructure and Learning(source Atkins)
Time
Different (asynchronous)
Same (synchronous)
Same
Place
Different
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The effects of learning
Individual
A
B
Personal change
Self-maintenance
Sustaining
Transforming
C
D
Community activism
Social fabric
Collective/community
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• Social outcomes of learning

Project aims

• to develop models and indicators for exploring
  causal links between education and social
  outcomes
• to carry out empirical analysis of these links in
  selected social domains

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Social outcomes of learning principal
domains/themes

• Health
• Physical
• Mental/psychological
• Social/Civic Engagement
• Tolerance
• Civic participation
• Cross cutting themes
• Equity/distribution
• Family functioning

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Lifelong Learning Data Development
Challenges(Tuijnman, Compare 334 2003)

• Changing a front-loaded and input-oriented
  statistical system
• Measuring lifewide learning non-formal and
  informal
• Measuring cumulative learning across the lifespan
• Measuring competencies and skills directly
• PLUS integrating quantitative and qualitative

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Some challenges for IDELE

• 1. Getting the measures right
• 2. Balancing diversity with common issues
• 3. The architecture of local learning environments