ABSTRACT
One of the currently focal concerns – and not just in education – is that of ‘learning’. By this I mean that the term and the issue have acquired a degree of public presence, and maybe fashionability that goes well beyond the clearly necessary constant interest in the issue in education. It is reflected in such phrases as ‘the learning society’, ‘the learning organization’, ‘life-long and life-wide learning’, etc. That degree of interest itself requires explanation, for whenever a term gains such currency, something is going on reaching deeper than the focal issue itself. That, however, is not the concern of this chapter.
