Looking forward backwards. Varieties of capitalisms, alternative futures, and learning landscapes.

Autor/in	Hake, Barry J.
Titel	Looking forward backwards. Varieties of capitalisms, alternative futures, and learning landscapes.
Quelle	In: European journal for Research on the Education and Learning of Adults, 12 (2021) 1, S. 31-45Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (1); PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (2) Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2000-7426
DOI	10.3384/rela.2000-7426.ojs3463
URN	urn:nbn:de:0111-pedocs-219612
Schlagwörter	Kultur; Zukunftsperspektive; Gesellschaft; Utopie; Kapitalismus; Neoliberalismus; Erwachsenenbildung; 20. Jahrhundert; Alternative; Zukunft; Zukunftsvorstellung; Europa
Abstract	Critiques of capitalism have constituted the backbone of political economies addressing living, working, and learning conditions in a variety of forms of capitalism. This paper explores different approaches to representations of the future of (adult) education in capitalist Europe. It examines the 1960s and 1970s as a period when rapid technological change was addressed in studies of the future of Europe by proponents of post-industrial society, New Left public intellectuals, professional futurologists, and critics of late capitalism. These studies envisaged quite different futures for both society and organised adult learning. Attention is subsequently focused on the pan-European project Educating Man for the 21st Century during the early 1970s which envisaged the future as 'neoindustrial / neo-capitalist society' in the year 2000. In conclusion, the paper offers a critical account of early encounters with neoliberal politics during the 1970s and early 1980s, particularly the cultural materialist work of Raymond Williams. (DIPF/Orig.).
Erfasst von	DIPF \| Leibniz-Institut für Bildungsforschung und Bildungsinformation, Frankfurt am Main
Update	2021/3