ABSTRACT
Education and learning need to move centre stage to secure our future well-being – and especially so in periods of rapid, yet consistent social transformation (Ranson, 1998). Only if learning is placed at the centre of our daily experience can:
• individuals continue to develop their skills and capacities; • organisations and institutions recognise how to harness the potential of
their workforce and be able to respond flexibly and imaginatively to the opportunities and difficulties of this paradigmatic period of change we are living through;
• cities act responsively and adapt flexibly to emerging needs; • societies understand that the diversity and differences between com-
munities can become a source of enrichment, understanding and potential.
