Abstract
Abstract
This chapter presents a study of the values that could be said to lie behind ten multiword terms, all of which have learning as the premodifier: learning city, learning climate, learning community, learning country, learning economy, learning evaluation, learning organization, learning region, learning school, and learning society. As a basis for the analysis of these terms, a set of five discourses—some of which have their origin in stakeholder perspectives—are used. The texts on three of the studied terms are dominated by the learning for all discourse; three terms are dominated by the effectiveness discourse; one term is dominated by the Bildung discourse; and three terms are influenced by various mixtures of discourses. The chapter concludes that the sets of texts on the same term in many cases are consistent, but that there also is room for differences, and that the learning premodifier seems to give far more opportunities for divergence than one could have expected. On this basis, it suggests that the learning premodifier has dual functions—it can serve to offer the user belongingness and can also provide uniqueness, even at the same time.
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Oxford University PressOxford
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