The CLD Standards Council has published ‘Advancing Scotland as a Learning Society: A Community Learning and Development Contribution’. This report is a concise record of the Conversations project which took place across Scotland earlier this year.

 

Fundamentally it was stated that a Learning Society would “value learning for its own sake; it would place emphasis on learning about self, relationships and community. A Learning Society:

 

• would be challenging, questioning, creative, curious and risk-taking
• would be compassionate, collaborative, caring and playful
• would promote social justice, be open to change and have an international perspective

A Learning Society would be open to all. There would be access for everyone with a spectrum of opportunities, entry points, locations and routes and it would not necessarily be about formal recognition, qualifications or be institution based. The learner would be at the heart of such a society with the natural human desire to learn acknowledged, affirmed and nurtured.” Join the debate online.