The course aims to design, implement and evaluate the actions and strategies of “lifelong learning city.” By reflecting on the dynamic approaches to school improvement and quality of leaning in a variety of educational settings, students will (1) deeply understand their own system and its challenge in supporting the individuals at each stage of life-course, (2) acquire understanding in how to develop inter-departmental and interdisciplinary cooperation, and (3) create shared values and ethics within the relations between family, schools, and local community.

Content: The course focuses on social and cultural perspectives on school improvement and learning community, with a special focus on the youth in line with lifelong learning. During the course, the various aspects of education, training and learning will be studied through the linking of human creativity, knowledge and innovation and the challenges to bridge the learning in and out of the school environment.

The first and second sections of the course introduce the major concepts underlying the school improvement and learning community. The third and fourth sections of this course focus on student activities which will be to build case studies based on the web-based research and on-site visits. Students will work individually and in groups to build web-based and on-site case studies that show their social and cultural perspectives on school improvement and learning community. The workshop periods will be used to work within the class to guide this activity. The instructor will help the students structure their activities and build and reflect these web-based case studies and on-site visits. The case studies will then be presented for the entire class to learn from in the last section of the lesson.

Modes of Study: lectures, discussions, oran presentations and essay

Enrolment in Nettiopsu not later than Sunday January 19th, 2014.

Study Material/Literature: Selected articles on learning community and school improvement studies. Articles will be given to the students in the beginning of the course.

Max 20 students.