Lifelong Learning, Learning Cities and Regions – Why?

Session outline: This session engages learners in creative debate with themselves and others on the basic rationale for developing learning cities and regions. It uses quotations from the first part of chapter 1 of ‘Learning Cities, Learning Regions, Learning Communities’, and creates exercises that will encourage learners to assess motivations and contribute their own ideas. It asks for an initial definition of a learning city or region and some reasons why it may be beneficial. These embryo thoughts will be further developed in later sessions.