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The New Culture of Learning -Link between Education and the Economy

This research on the interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary, and transdisciplinary level integrates, develops and evaluates a new culture of learning in educational institutions (kindergarten, school, faculty). It focuses on three types of learning: “learning to know”, “learning to do” and “learning to be”. Namely, the current social and scientific-technological moment demands innovative educational institutions striving for a breakthrough from “the teaching society” to “the learning society” and establishment of an active relationship with the “real-time reality” and the living environment for bridging the gap between formal (school) knowledge and everyday life and professional challenges. Te importance of this research is obvious from its primary purpose: it aspires to explore and strengthen the new culture of learning with its main features of individual, extra-curricular, lifelong, anticipatory, social and global learning. Basically, the research deals with restructuring, redefining and transforming the knowledge, i.e. integrative learning and curriculum focused on pupil/student that are important for both an individual and the community as well as for the economy. Focal work area will give an answer to the question of how the new culture of learning contributes to the development of knowledge, skills and abilities (competencies) that are necessary to individuals for their personal development, participation in a society and employment, and lifelong learning as the most important link between education and the economy.

new culture of learning, integrative and lifelong learning, education and economy, competencies

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